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The Centre also told the court not to ‘blindly’ follow Western countries while hearing pleas asking for non-consensual sex in a marriage to be treated as rape.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday observed that a woman meting out cruelty on another woman becomes a more serious offence, as it upheld the conviction of the (now) 80-year-old mother-in-law of the deceased, under the IPCs Section 498A, and sentenced her to three months imprisonment. �� Supreme Court Says Woman Meting Out Cruelty on Another Woman Becomes a More Serious Offence, Jails Woman For Cruelty Against Daughter-in-Law.

Punjab and Haryana High Court recently denied permission to an accused man seeking to travel abroad to Canada citing the pendency of the criminal trial

It was the case of the complainant (father of the deceased) that his daughter had committed suicide after she spoke on phone with her husband.

MUMBAI: "In the absence of legally admissible evidence there cannot be moral conviction," said the Bombay high court as it set aside a 2012 murder conviction and life sentence of three people, including a man whose wife had died due to asphyxiation from hanging. A bench of Justice Sadhana Jadhav and Justice N R Borkar recently ruled in a 2010 "cruelty to wife" case that there was evidence for conviction under section 498A of IPC. “In cases like the present one, just because the wife has die...

Woman remarries before divorce, faces bigamy case Woman remarries before divorce, faces bigamy case ByArchana MoreArchana More / Updated: Mar 17, 2021, 06:00 IST The judicial officer passed issue process order in the case; FILE PHOTO Accused allegedly slapped domestic violence charges against second husband after he confronted her on knowing her past; complainant’s advocates call her plea abuse of law Yet in another alleged case of misuse of the women protection laws, a woman — software eng...