Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 13(1)(ia) -- Divorce - Cruelty - Cruelty cannot be assessed only on basis of any single incident and all incidents referred and evidence led are to be examined in cumulative manner in order to arrive at conclusion as to whether cruelty has taken place or not...........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 13(1)(ia) -- Divorce - Cruelty - Act of driving away wife while she was with child amounts to moral and emotional dereliction, if not cruelty and undermines husband's claim of suffering cruelty at the hands of wife...........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 13(1)(ia) -- Divorce - Cruelty - Petition by husband - Conduct of husband in driving away his wife at a vulnerable stage, after seeking judicial assistance to resume cohabitation, amounts to matrimonial misconduct and disentitles him from seeking relief on the principles of fault theory embodied in S.23(1)(a) of Hindu Marriage Act -..........
Matrimonial dispute -- Settlement - Matter is settled between parties - All pending criminal and civil litigations filed by either party against the other, including but not limited to those against Wife, Husband, and his family members, in any Court or forum in India are quashed and/or withdrawn - Marriage between parties dissolved by invoking power u/art 142 of..........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 9 -- Restitution of conjugal rights - Withdrawal from society without reasonable excuse - Must be demonstrated...........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 9, 13 -- Petition by wife for restitution of conjugal rights and counter claim of divorce by husband - Petition for restitution of conjugal rights dismissed and counter claim decreed - Husband set out a list of incidents of cruelty meted out to him and his cross examination has not brought out any contradiction or improvement from his..........
Protection of Women From Domestic Violence Act, 2005, Section 12, 18, 19, 20, 22 -- Interim maintenance - Domestic Violence Act does not distinguish between a first or subsequent marriage for the purpose of entitlement to maintenance...........
Evidence Act, 1872, Section 122 -- Recorded conversation in between husband and wife - Law as to : (i) Provision of S.122 of the Act deals with admissibility of privileged communication made by a married person to a partner during subsistence of marriage; (ii) S.122 of the Act is worded in two parts: (a) Compellability and permissibility - Two parts are separate and have..........
Evidence Act, 1872, Section 112, Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Section 151, Order 26, Rule 10A -- DNA test - Paternity of child - Husband filed petition for nullity of marriage and to declare that husband is not a biological father of child - Only source available to husband to prove paternity of child is to conduct DNA test - Application allowed...........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 13 -- Divorce - Petition by wife - Wife stated that husband was incompetent to make physical relations with her - Husband was in habit of taking liquor and threatened wife for killing her on account of which she also lodged a criminal case against husband - Wife also lodged a criminal case for dowry demand against husband - Husband..........
