News Update Supreme Court Clarifies When a Consensual Relationship May Constitute Rape on False Promise of Marriage 27 Nov 2024 In a significant ruling, the Supreme Court provided clarity on the legal interpretation of consensual sexual relationships amounting to rape on the false pretext of marriage. A bench of Justices…
News Update Validity of Marriage through video Conferencing under SMA- To be Examined by Division Bench of Kerala High Court 25 Aug 2021 On Wednesday Justice P B Suresh Kumar referred the matter to Division Bench of Kerala High Court for adjudication. The fact arouse from various pleas filed for allowing marriage through…
News Update The refusal to register an 18-year-old man’s marriage is a breach of the law, according to the Punjab and Haryana High Court 13 Aug 2021 The Punjab and Haryana High Court ruled on August 10 that refusing to recognize a marriage because the guy was under the age of 18 at the time of marriage…
News Update Delhi High Court issues notice to Centre on the basis of a plea seeking recognition of same-sex marriage 6 Jul 2021 Mr. Joydeep Sengupta is a Canadian Citizen and an Overseas Citizen of India. (OCI)Mr. Russell Blaine Stephens is an American citizen. They both got married in New York on August…
News Update Petition filed in the High Court against Prince Harry Middleton 13 Apr 2021 Case- Palwinder Kaur v. Prince Harry Middleton The petitioner who is a Lawyer approached the Punjab and Haryana High Court, and sought to take action against Prince Harry Middleton, as…
News Update Delhi High Court allows termination of pregnancy beyond 24-weeks 11 Apr 2021 In the case of Mahima Yadav v. Government of NCT of Delhi and others, the Delhi High Court allowed the termination of pregnancy beyond the 24 weeks period on account…
News Update Child born out of live-in relationship to be treated as child born to married couple: Kerala High Court 10 Apr 202110 Apr 2021 Kerala High Court recently held that a child born out a live-in relationship and acknowledged so by the mother of the child, would have to be treated as a child…
News Update PCOS cannot be termed as impotency: Madras High Court 4 Apr 2021 The Madras High Court in a recent case observed that Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS / PSOS) cannot be termed as impotency. During the case proceedings, the judge mentioned that the…
News Update Bombay High Court held that a daughter has the right to question the validity of father’s second marriage 20 Mar 20212 May 2021 A daughter has the locus standi to question her father’s second marriage in every way. The Bombay High court while hearing a petition, took a stand that the daughter has…
News Update “Reported & Projected Wrongly”: Clarifies Supreme Court on its statement of “Will you Marry the Victim?” 8 Mar 20212 May 2021 The Honourable Supreme Court of India today expressed its strong disagreement at the "complete misreporting" of last week's hearing of a rape case in which it had purportedly asked a…
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