The HMA is a complete code which provides for the rights, liabilities and obligations arising from a marriage between two Hindus. Sections 24 and 25 make provision for maintenance to…
Chapter IX of Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 provides for maintenance of wife, children and parents in a summary proceeding. Maintenance Under Section 125 of the Code of Criminal Procedure…
The D.V. Act provides relief to an aggrieved woman who is subjected to “domestic violence.” The “aggrieved person” has been defined by Section 2(a) to mean any woman who is,…
The Supreme Court Bench comprising Justice Indu Malhotra and Justice R. Subhash Reddy, had the occasion to lay down guidelines on the issue of overlapping of jurisdiction in maintenance case,…
Introduction The Supreme Court of India, in Vihaan Kumar v. State of Haryana & Anr. (2025 INSC 162), has delivered a landmark judgment reinforcing the constitutional rights of arrested individuals…
The history of relationship between Parliament and Courts at Westminster is also marked with conflict and controversy. Sir Erskine May rightly comments; “After some three and a half centuries, the…
While holding a significant Judgment of Bombay High Court, the Supreme Court Bench comprising Justice BV Nagarathna and Justice Satish Chandra Sharma dismissed a SLP against the Judgment. The Division…
Introduction The Supreme Court of India, in Kuldeep Singh v. The State of Punjab & Ors., Criminal Appeal No. , addressed a crucial issue concerning the quashing of criminal proceedings…
Meaning Though all the three expressions, powers, privileges and immunities are invariably used in almost all Constitutions of the world, they are different in their meanings and also in contents.…
An Important question came before the court whether the State Government can direct the Advocate General or the Additional Advocate General to present an appeal Under Section 378 (1) of…
