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Adultery A Ground For Divorce, Not For Granting Child Custody: High Court
Adultery can be a ground for divorce but not for granting custody of a child, the Bombay High Court said while granting custody of a nine-year-old girl to her mother.
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Man's Claim To Right To Privacy Over Adultery Rejected In Divorce Case
It will not be in public interest for the court to come to the aid of a married man, who indulged in alleged sexual relationships outside the wedlock, on the premise of right to privacy, the Delhi High Court said on Wednesday.
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Delhi Court Stays Order Seeking Hotel Booking Of Husband In Divorce Case
Delhi High Court has stayed a family court order directing to place on record hotel booking and call record details of a man against whom his estranged wife has filed a divorce petition on grounds of adultery and cruelty.
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Supreme Court Strikes Down Adultery Law. Here's The Chronology Of Case
Adultery is no longer a crime in India though "without a shadow of doubt" can be grounds for divorce, the Supreme Court.
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Adultery Is Not A Crime, Says Supreme Court. Key Quotes Of The Judges
In an unanimous verdict, the Supreme Court has struck down the 158- year-old section 497 of the Indian Penal Code, which says adultery is a crime. It can however, be grounds for divorce "without a shadow of doubt", said the top court.
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"Matter Of Privacy": Key Points In Supreme Court's Adultery Ruling
Adultery is not a crime anymore in India, but it can be grounds for divorce, the Supreme Court said today. In past hearings, the Supreme Court had asked the centre how the 158-year-old law preserved the sanctity of marriage when the extramarital affair becomes non-punishable if the woman's husband stands by her. The government has defended the law,...
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Adultery Not A Crime, "Husband Not Master of Wife," Says Supreme Court
Adultery is no longer a crime in India though "without a shadow of doubt" can be grounds for divorce, the Supreme Court said today, junking a 158-year law that punished a man for an affair but not the woman, treating her as her husband's property.
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Married Women Have Sexual Autonomy Like Right To Say "No": Top Court
If a woman has the right to say "no", then it has to be accepted that she also does not lose her "sexual autonomy" after marriage, a Supreme Court judge said on Thursday. Justice DY Chandrachud, who was part of a five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra examining the penal law on adultery, also said that if a person indulge...
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No DNA Test Can Prove Decades-Old Adultery Case, Says High Court
A DNA test cannot be ordered as a shortcut to establish adultery a woman may have committed decades ago, the Kerala High Court has ruled, rejecting a 77-year-old man's plea for divorce from his wife aged 68.
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Allegation Of Adultery By Spouse Most Painful: Delhi High Court
Allegation of adultery levelled by a spouse is most "painful" for a person, the Delhi High Court has observed while granting divorce to a man who was accused by his wife of having illicit relationship with another woman.
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Woman Divorced on Ground of Adultery Cannot Claim Maintenance: Court
A woman divorced on the ground of adulterous conduct cannot claim maintenance from her ex-husband, the Madras High Court has ruled.
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Adultery A Ground For Divorce, Not For Granting Child Custody: High Court
Adultery can be a ground for divorce but not for granting custody of a child, the Bombay High Court said while granting custody of a nine-year-old girl to her mother.
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Man's Claim To Right To Privacy Over Adultery Rejected In Divorce Case
It will not be in public interest for the court to come to the aid of a married man, who indulged in alleged sexual relationships outside the wedlock, on the premise of right to privacy, the Delhi High Court said on Wednesday.
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Delhi Court Stays Order Seeking Hotel Booking Of Husband In Divorce Case
Delhi High Court has stayed a family court order directing to place on record hotel booking and call record details of a man against whom his estranged wife has filed a divorce petition on grounds of adultery and cruelty.
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Supreme Court Strikes Down Adultery Law. Here's The Chronology Of Case
Adultery is no longer a crime in India though "without a shadow of doubt" can be grounds for divorce, the Supreme Court.
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Adultery Is Not A Crime, Says Supreme Court. Key Quotes Of The Judges
In an unanimous verdict, the Supreme Court has struck down the 158- year-old section 497 of the Indian Penal Code, which says adultery is a crime. It can however, be grounds for divorce "without a shadow of doubt", said the top court.
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"Matter Of Privacy": Key Points In Supreme Court's Adultery Ruling
Adultery is not a crime anymore in India, but it can be grounds for divorce, the Supreme Court said today. In past hearings, the Supreme Court had asked the centre how the 158-year-old law preserved the sanctity of marriage when the extramarital affair becomes non-punishable if the woman's husband stands by her. The government has defended the law,...
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Adultery Not A Crime, "Husband Not Master of Wife," Says Supreme Court
Adultery is no longer a crime in India though "without a shadow of doubt" can be grounds for divorce, the Supreme Court said today, junking a 158-year law that punished a man for an affair but not the woman, treating her as her husband's property.
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Married Women Have Sexual Autonomy Like Right To Say "No": Top Court
If a woman has the right to say "no", then it has to be accepted that she also does not lose her "sexual autonomy" after marriage, a Supreme Court judge said on Thursday. Justice DY Chandrachud, who was part of a five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra examining the penal law on adultery, also said that if a person indulge...
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No DNA Test Can Prove Decades-Old Adultery Case, Says High Court
A DNA test cannot be ordered as a shortcut to establish adultery a woman may have committed decades ago, the Kerala High Court has ruled, rejecting a 77-year-old man's plea for divorce from his wife aged 68.
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Allegation Of Adultery By Spouse Most Painful: Delhi High Court
Allegation of adultery levelled by a spouse is most "painful" for a person, the Delhi High Court has observed while granting divorce to a man who was accused by his wife of having illicit relationship with another woman.
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Woman Divorced on Ground of Adultery Cannot Claim Maintenance: Court
A woman divorced on the ground of adulterous conduct cannot claim maintenance from her ex-husband, the Madras High Court has ruled.
