A husband has no control over his wife's 'streedhan' (woman's property) and while he may use it during the time of his distress, he has a moral obligation to return it to his wife, the Supreme Court has reiterated while directing a man to pay Rs 25 l
"When we talk about relinquishing control over assets, what also happens is that after she gets married, she does not often ask questions about what is being done on the investment front. So a very common problem that comes to me is that my husband makes all the investments for me, so I have no idea what is going on, where is what and what is on my name, what is not on my name. So even at that level, control is being given to someone else, a husband or a patriarch in the family to handle."
The Bombay High Court recently observed that the wife’s reputation is lowered by the mere fact that husband has made allegations against her in a newspaper, whether or not the news report is actually.
The Court observed that whether or not the actual news is defamatory is irrelevant as allegations and accusations themselves have the effect of lowering one's reputation