BERHAMPUR: Battling acute poverty, a couple of Rayagada allegedly gave away their nine-day-old child to a family from Andhra Pradesh, in Nuapada Sahi village under Chandili police limits of the district. Even as the alleged baby sale incident in Balangir hogged the headlines, the Rayagada story has now come as another shocker. The natural mother Kumud Ganta and her husband …
The Supreme Court held if someone tries to transfer property rights to another person through a legal document but doesn't actually own those rights, the new owner or their successors won't have the legal right to claim those rights from that document. However, the First Appellate Court reversed the trial court's decision observing that the wife would not derive title …
A brand new flat for your wife this Valentine's Day? In the state of Maharashtra, the applicable stamp duty payable if a husband gifts a residential or agricultural property to his wife is ₹200. The Uttar Pradesh government recently limited the maximum stamp duty payable on a gift of a residential or agricultural property from a husband to his wife …
The Allahabad High Court has held that a person whose name mutation as the tenure holder of a land has been stayed, cannot execute a sale deed for the said land. A civil appeal against the order of the Trial Court was allowed because the petitioner had executed a sale deed while the mutation of record in her favour had …
The Allahabad High Court has held that a wife's silence or lack of protest at the time of adoption by her husband cannot give rise to an inference that she has consented to such adoption under Section 7 of the Hindu Adoption & Maintenance Act, 1956. The concerned authority had rejected the adoption deed relied by the Appellant on the …
