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Observing that it is not uncommon for husbands to suppress their real income in order to avoid paying maintenance to their wives, the Delhi High Court has held that a wife can seek to summon bank officials as witness to the husband’s actual income/ assets. Justice Ravinder Dudeja thus allowed Petitioner-wife’s plea against a Family…
Madhya Pradesh High Court: In a criminal appeal filed by a wife, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, who was convicted by the Trial Court for the murder of her husband and sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for life, the Division Bench of Vivek Agarwal* and Devnarayan Mishra, JJ., rejected the appeal holding that the chain of circumstances…
The Allahabad High Court has upheld the conviction of a husband in case of dowry death and rejected the defence that the woman could have caught fire during sprinkling seasoning for vegetables while cooking. The High Court noted that the signs of the deceased saving herself had also not been found. The criminal appeal before…
Rejecting the claim of the accused that the deceased woman had accidentally caught fire while cooking, the Allahabad High Court last week upheld the conviction of a man in a 1991 dowry death case. A Bench of Justice rajnish kumar upheld the trial court’s judgment wherein the accused was convicted under Sections 304-B and 498-A…
