Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 13(1)(ia) -- Divorce - Cruelty - Petition by wife - Husband had put entire burden on wife to manage house, her job and to look after children - He did not take any responsibility and continuously abused wife and insulted her family members - Parties have been married for nearly 24 years, but they have not spent major part together as..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 376, 90 -- Rape - Consent - False promise of marriage - Prosecutrix was more than 18 years of age at the time of incident - Accused stayed in the house of prosecutrix as tenant for eight months before being ousted - Prosecutrix was aware about marital status of accused while she continued to have sexual relationship with him - Relationship..........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 13(1)(ia) -- Divorce - Cruelty - Petition by husband - Wife filed criminal case against husband and his family members, based on unfounded baseless allegations of illicit relationship, extortion of money, creating pressure to terminate pregnancy, refusal to provide sufficient food, clothing etc., during her stay at matrimonial home, which..........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 25 -- Permanent alimony - Husband has also responsibility to bring up son presently aged about 12 years - Husband directed to pay one time permanent maintenance including litigation cost of Rs.6 lakhs to son...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 9, Rule 13 -- Ex parte divorce decree - Setting aside - Re-marriage of spouse is not a relevant factor to be taken into account in deciding merits of application filed for setting aside ex parte decree of divorce...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 9, Rule 13 -- Ex parte divorce decree against wife - Setting aside - Re-marriage of husband who obtained ex parte decree of divorce will not render application to set aside ex parte decree filed by wife infructuous - Since wife filed application U.O.9.R.13 CPC immediately after husband obtaining ex parte divorce, Court below rightly set..........
Special Marriage Act, 1954, Section 4 -- Marriage through online mode - Division Bench of High Court in an interim order prescribed detailed guidelines for performing marriage under the Act through online mode - Writ petition can be disposed of in tune with such guidelines - In the instant case bride pursuing her Master's decree in U.K. and she not in a position to make..........
Protection to life and liberty -- Petitioners being major performed marriage against the wishes of their parents - However, they concealed vital information regarding earlier marriage of petitioner no.1 - Relief of protection of life and liberty guaranteed u/art 21 of Constitution cannot be denied to a citizen merely because he happens to commit an offence punishable..........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 13 -- Divorce - Petition by husband - Parties are residing separately since 1991 i.e only one day after the marriage - Wife lodged criminal complaints/FIRs against husband in which he and his family members were acquitted - Efforts to resolve dispute through process of mediation already failed between parties - There appears no chance that..........
Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006, Section 11 -- Child marriage - Organizing marriage is sine qua non to constitute an offence under the Act...........
