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Lakhimpur Kheri violence case: Supreme Court directs UP Police to register FIR regarding threats received by witness

The Supreme Court on Thursday pulled up the Uttar Pradesh police for not registering an FIR into a complaint made by a person regarding threat/inducement to not depose in the Lakhimpur Kheri violence case involving former Union Minister’s son Ashish Mishra. The Bench of Justice Surya Kant, Justice Ujjal Bhuyan and Justice N Kotiswar Singh rejected…

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Falsely implicating husband and his family in domestic violence case with intention to ensure that the parties were sent to counselling in order to settle their disputes amounts to mental cruelty entitling husband to seek divorce

Falsely implicating husband and his family in domestic violence case with intention to ensure that the parties were sent to counselling in order to settle their disputes amounts to mental cruelty entitling husband to seek divorce

Allegations of cruelty in divorce case should be specifically challenged in cross examination Now, given that matrimonial disputes rarely involve production of concrete evidence in documentary or audio-visual form, and mostly proceed on the relative strength of the opposing allegations made by the parties, the entire process of leading and recording evidence has a significant…

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Delhi High Court Asks MHA To Inquire Into Incident Of Violence At Detention Centre After Agencies Pass Buck On CCTV Footage

The Delhi High Court has asked the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) to conduct an inquiry or investigation in an incident alleging violence in a detention centre by the detainees, after the agencies, including the Delhi Police, passed buck on manning the CCTV which captured the occurrence. This was after Justice Girish Kathpalia had…

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Realization Of Insurance Amount Due To Two Different Claimants Not ‘Economic Abuse’ Under Domestic Violence Act: Patna High Court

The Patna High Court held that the realization of the insurance amount due to two different claimants cannot be said to be an ‘economic abuse’ under Section 3(d)(iv) of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 (DV Act). The Court held thus in a Criminal Miscellaneous Case in which an Application was filed…

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