Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Section 151, Order 9, Rule 13 -- Ex parte divorce decree against husband - Setting aside - Service of summons - Manifest and explicit difference in writing as well as use of pens while mentioning endorsement of `receiving summons and copy of petition' as well as in writing and pen used for signatures allegedly shown to be of husband - When..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 18, Rule 4 -- Affidavit of examination-in-chief - Witness stated in Court that examination-in-chief was not recorded under his instructions nor does he know the contents of his examination-in-chief - Evidentiary value of his statement in cross examination is seriously dented...........
Clean hands -- Maintenance petition u/s 125 Cr.P.C. - Wife claimed herself to be illiterate and unemployed - However, in cross examination she admitted that she is earning Rs.36,000/- per month - Wife has not come to Court with clean hands - Wife is not entitled to maintenance...........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 125(1)(a) -- Maintenance to wife - Earning wife - Wife is an earning lady and able to maintain herself - She thus, not entitled to get any maintenance from husband...........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 125 -- Maintenance to wife - Wife suppressed the material facts and claimed herself as a illiterate and unemployed woman in her affidavit - However, when document filed by husband was shown to her before trial Court, she admitted her income during cross-examination - Wife thus, not came to Court with clean hands - If a petitioner is..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 125 -- Maintenance to wife - Income of husband - Deductions - While calculating quantum of maintenance income has to be ascertained by only permitting deductions which are towards income tax and compulsory contributions...........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 125, Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956, Section 20 -- Maintenance to major unmarried daughter - Major Hindu daughter is entitled to maintenance from her father u/s 20 HAMA as long as major daughter is unmarried and is unable to maintain herself out of her own earnings and property - Mere fact that no application is filed under..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Section 115 -- Revision - Microscopic scrutiny of pleadings and evidence in revisional jurisdiction is not permitted until jurisdiction as exercised by two Courts concurrently is ex facie without authority...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Section 10 -- Stay of subsequent suit - Object of S.10 CPC is to prevent Courts of concurrent jurisdiction from simultaneously proceeding with parallel suits involving issues that are directly and substantially the same...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Section 10 -- Stay of subsequent suit - Statutory expression "matter in issue is directly and substantially in issue" signifies an issue that forms the core of dispute, as distinguished from questions that arise merely incidentally or collaterally - Common property forming the subject matter of litigation does not by itself, attract bar of S.10..........
