This column carries a latest court judgments by High Courts, Supreme Courts or district courts
The Supreme Court, in a landmark judgement, today criminalized sex with a minor wife aged between 15 and 18 years, saying the exception in the rape law was arbitrary and violation to the constitution. Section 375 of the IPC, which defines the offence of rape, has an exception clause that says intercourse or sexual acts[…]
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Husband Can Not be Punished without Reliable Evidence In the instant case, the couple got married in May 2006, and the woman was found hanging in her matrimonial house in April 2008. The complaint was lodged by the victim’s father at Kalyanpuri Police Station against her husband and in-laws on the allegations that[…]
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When marriages break legal battle starts and in order to prove oneself every party makes huge claims .One of the claim women makes is for return of dowry articles for which some times they take recourse of unacceptable evidences .The latest decision of judiciary do take cautious approach towards such claims . Kerala High[…]
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