While quashing a rape and dowry FIR against a husband and his kin, the Indore Bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court said that the petitioner and his family members were "falsely implicated", adding that the lodging of the FIR at the wife's instance appeared to be an act of "wreaking vengeance". The court said this after noting that there …
The Punjab & Haryana High Court quashed the cruelty case filed by woman having Australian citizenship against her former Australian husband and in-laws observing that, "disturbing trend where criminal prosecution is initiated in matrimonial disputes in India by foreign nationals, who have voluntarily availed citizenship of another country and are in continuous residence there." When the matrimonial disputes stand settled …
The Kerala High Court recently refused to grant anticipatory bail to three persons who had allegedly cheated a woman by putting up a fake profile on a matrimonial website. The prosecution allegation was that the 1st petitioner who is a 38 year old man who is already married, had put up a matrimonial profile claiming himself to be a doctor, …
Observing that pendency of the criminal proceedings against them shall not come in the way of renewal of their passports, the Andhra Pradesh High Court has permitted an elderly couple to travel to the US. “If the petitioner No.1 contracts second marriage during the subsistence of the earlier marriage, the 2nd respondent/de facto complainant is entitled to avail the relevant …
