Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 13 -- Divorce - Cruelty - Mere pressure by a wife on the husband to live separately from the parents is not a sufficient ground for divorce or cruelty...........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 9, 13 -- Petition for restitution of conjugal rights - Permission to convert into one for divorce can be granted...........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 25 -- Maintenance - Wife compelled to live at `maika' with minor son aged 9 years - Husband directed to pay maintenance of Rs.1, 500/- to wife and child - Order granting maintenance of Rs.1, 000/- not proper in view of fact that wife has to maintain child and maintain standard also...........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 27 -- Return of articles presented at the time of marriage - Court has jurisdiction to entertain such application - But if marriage is preserved then question of entertainment of such application does not arise...........
Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act, 1956, Section 13, 6(a) -- Custody of child - Paramount consideration for disposal of such application should be welfare of child - Keeping this in view custody of minor child directed to remain with the mother...........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 13B -- Divorce by mutual consent - Waiting period of six months - Not mandatory - It can be waived and parties can part their company without waiting for the said period if the marriage has broken in unequivocal terms and when the possibility of revival of martial relationship is practically remote...........
Hindu Law -- Hindu Joint Family Property - Liability of sons to pay the debts of his father - Obligations rests on the sons of the deceased whether they are major or minor to discharge the debts incurred by him to the extent they had inherited the property on his death or to the extent of their interest the joint Hindu family property...........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 24, 11, 5(i) -- Marriage with a man who was already married and had a subsisting marriage - Petition u/s 11 for declaration of such marriage as void - Wife is entitled to maintenance pendente lite - Words `husband' and `wife' used in S.24 include a man and a woman who have gone through ceremony of Hindu Marriage which would have been valid..........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 16 -- Illegitimate child - Rights of - His rights get restricted to property belonging to parents of child only - Property belonging to others over which parents have claim by virtue of their coparcenary rights of inheritance - Same cannot be inherited by illegitimate child...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 34, 324, 110 -- Matadin exhorting in abusive language to his fellows pointing to deceased 'Maro Sale Ko' - Ram Singh his fellow inflicted knife injury in stomach of deceased - Death taking place after 10 days of causing bodily injury while taking treatment in hospital - Courts below convicting Matadin under Ss.302/34 IPC - Conviction..........
