Consumer Protection Act, 1986, Section 2(1)(r), 14 -- Booking of Bhavan for marriage - Got cancelled by the complainant - 50% refund of rental given - District Forum ordering refund of whole amount of rental as the booking got cancelled seven weeks prior to the date of booking and the premises actually used for that date by some other person - Orders upheld - Adverse..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 306, 498A, 304B -- Dowry death - Demand of dowry - Demand of Scooter, refrigerator within a few days of marriage - It amounts to demand of dowry - It is not always necessary that there be any agreement for dowry - When on account of not satisfying these demands, bride was repeatedly taunted, maltreated and mentally tortured - There was a..........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 7 -- Marriage - Ceremonies - Ceremonies and customs prevailing in the families of either party essential - Kanyadanam not essential ceremony - Marriage valid even in the absence of Saptapadi if there are other customary ceremonies prevailing in the family or community...........
Service -- Second marriage during the subsistence of first marriage - Enquiry - Punishment of compulsory retirement - Tribunal set aside the order of Disciplinary Authority holding that it was based on no evidence and findings were perverse - Appeal - Departmental enquiry conducted was totally unsatisfactory and without observing the minimum required procedure for proving..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 304B -- Appeal against conviction - Death occurred within 3-1/2 years of marriage otherwise than under normal circumstances - As per report of the Chemical Examiner, aluminium phosphide was found in her viscera - Subjected to cruelty and coerced and pressurized by husband and i, laws to bring coloured T.V. - Defence version not accepted..........
Succession Act, 1925, Section 372 -- Succession certificate - Application by wife - Objection raised by a lady claiming to be legally wedded wife of deceased - Evidence showing that on date of alleged marriage of objector with deceased, her first marriage with another person was subsisting - Succession certificate directed to be issued to the applicant...........
Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956, Section 18, Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 24 -- Pendency of matrimonial proceedings before Family Court - Interim maintenance - It is not necessary that application has to be made under S.24 of the Hindu Marriage Act in the same Court - In such situation, application under Section 18 of Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act is..........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 20(2) -- Statements contained in the petition - May be referred to as evidence at the hearing...........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 13 -- Wife has not withdrawn from the husband's society - Even before the marriage she was in service - At the time of marriage, husband opted for a working woman as he wanted to have financial assistance from the spouse - Held, Matrimonial Court has not fallen into any error in dismissing the husbands' divorce petition...........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 125 -- Maintenance - Marriage - Strict proof of marriage is not required - All that is required is to show that there has been marriage - Inference of marriage may be drawn from cohabitation, as husband and wife...........
