Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 13(1)(ia), (ib) -- Divorce - Cruelty and desertion - Mere accusation of relationship with some other person itself is a mental cruelty and perhaps is the reasonable cause for wife to live apart...........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 13(1)(ia) -- Divorce - Cruelty - Petition by husband - Wife has always been ready and willing to live with husband and for resumption of matrimonial relationship she made efforts for restitution of conjugal rights from her side but due to negative response of husband she was not allowed to live with him - Husband denied to keep his wife..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 125 -- Maintenance to wife - Matrimonial relationship between parties subsisted for an extremely short duration of about 57 days - Family Court has properly assessed quantum of maintenance taking into account short duration of marriage, financial capacity and conduct of husband, qualifications and potential of wife and object of S.125..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 376, 506, Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012, Section 6 -- Rape of daughter by father - Contradictory statements given by prosecutrix and her mother - However, prosecutrix was 3 months pregnant at the time of registration of FIR - FSL report for the same establishes beyond doubt that DNA of foetus matched with that of..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 376(2), 376(AB), Protection of Women From Domestic Violence Act, 2005, Section 6 -- Rape of minor girl by her own father - Medical evidence is consistent with prosecution version and has not been effectively challenged by defence - No material has been brought on record to show any prior animosity or motive strong enough for mother to..........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 13B, Constitution of India, 1950, Article 142 -- Divorce by mutual consent - Parties have been living separately for a considerable length of time - Efforts of reconciliation have not yielded any positive outcome - Both the parties have expressed their unequivocal desire to bring marital relationship to an end - Marriage between parties..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 125 -- Maintenance to wife - Earlier marriage of wife continued to subsist at the time of her marriage with opposite party/husband - Mere fact that wife resided with opposite party for nearly ten years and relationship may appear akin to marriage, yet such cohabitation does not confer legal status of a wife u/s 125 Cr.P.C. - Wife does..........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 13(1)(ia) -- Divorce - Cruelty - Parties have been residing separately since 2012 which is more than thirteen years now and no substantial or meaningful effort has been made in restoring their matrimonial relationship - Every endeavour was made to explore possibility of reconciliation or alternatively an amicable separation, however, given..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 376(2)(n), 420 -- Rape - Refusal to marry - Victim herself admitted in her cross-examination that she indulged in physical relationship despite refusal of appellant to marry her - She had supported the bail application of appellant before High Court and had travelled along with his relative to High Court - Victim was thus in relationship..........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 9 -- Restitution of conjugal right - Filing petition for restitution of conjugal right per se will not lead to an inference that petitioner is ready to resume conjugal relationship - After filing restitution of conjugal right petition, appellant has also filed application before Judicial Magistrate under Domestic Violence Act and another..........
