cruelty – Lawcutor

Supreme Court Clarifies Application of Section 113B: Acquits Accused in Dowry Death Case

15 Jan 202515 Jan 2025

The Supreme Court, on January 9, acquitted an accused of charges under cruelty and abetment of suicide, emphasizing that Section 113B of the Indian Evidence Act (Presumption as to dowry…

Supreme Court Cautions Against Unnecessary Implication of Distant Relatives in Domestic Cruelty Cases

Payal sharma vs. State of Punjab, 2024 INSC 896 In a significant judgment, the Supreme Court has stressed the importance of ensuring that distant relatives of a husband are not…

MP High Court Dissolves Marriage, Rules Forcing Spouse to Quit Job Amounts to Cruelty

The Indore Bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court recently allowed a woman’s plea for divorce, observing that her husband's coercion to make her quit her government job until he…

Staying abroad by a spouse doesn’t amount to cruelty or desertion: Bombay HC

The Bombay High Court division bench of Justices Ujjwal Bhuyan and Prithviraj Chavan refused to entertain the plea filed by the appellant (husband), under section 13 (1)(ia) and section 13(1)(ib)…

YouTuber Arrested for Posting Video of Dog Flying With Helium Baloons

According to police, a 27-year-old YouTuber was arrested for animal cruelty after uploading a video of his pet dog floating in the air with helium gas balloons tied to its…

Allegations by estranged spouse affecting other’s reputation and career is mental cruelty

Case: Joydeep Majumdar v. Bharti Jaiswal Majumdar The husband was an army officer, who filed a divorce petition, on grounds that he was subjected to numerous malicious complaints by the…

Gujarat High Court denied bail to the accused and held that the animals do feel severity of physical harm caused to them.

)Case title: Akram Bhai Shaukat Bhai Posti v. State of Gujarat The Gujarat High Court held that the animals are like human beings, they have the capacity to understand the…

Either the law needs to be amended or the court will stay its operation, Supreme Court on Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Rules, 2017

5 Jan 20215 Jan 2021

Background A petition has been filed by the Buffalo Traders Welfare Association challenging the validity of the 2017 notifications allowing authorities to seize vehicles used in cattle transportation and to…

Wife in a void marriage can file case for cruelty

In Karnail Chand and others v State of J&K and another, High Court of Jammu and Kashmir mentioned that wife in a void marriage can also file a case for…

Delhi HC says false allegation of impotency against husband amounts to cruelty under Hindu Marriage Act

In Kriti Nagpal v. Rohit Girdhar, the Delhi High Court has held that if a wife holds a false allegation of impotency against her husband, then it is considered to…