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14-Year-Old Girl Can't Be Treated As "Chattel" In Custody Battle: Supreme Court
Observing that a 14-year-old child cannot be treated as "chattel", the Supreme Court has set aside an order of the Orissa High Court allowing the biological father of a girl her custody, saying she was living happily with her paternal aunt.
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Marital Disputes Are Most Bitterly Fought Cases In Country: Bombay High Court
Children are treated like "chattel" or movable property in matrimonial disputes, Bombay High Court said while directing a woman to come to India from Thailand with her 15-year-old son so that he can meet his father and siblings.
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Not Making Tea No Provocation For Husband To Assault Wife: High Court
Upholding a 35-year-old man's conviction for assaulting his wife, the Bombay High Court has said the wife's refusal to make tea for husband could not be accepted as provocation for him to assault her, and observed that wife is "not a chattel or an object".
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What Equality? Women Superior To Men, Uma Bharti Says On Adultery Ruling
On a day the Supreme Court declared adultery is no longer a crime in India and said women cannot be treated as "chattel", union minister Uma Bharti claimed equal rights is a western concept and that in India women have been considered superior to men.
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Adultery Law Strips Woman Of Sexual Autonomy: Justice Chandrachud
The colonial-era law criminalising adultery strips women of their "sexual autonomy" and treats them as a "chattel" and "property" of their husbands, the Supreme Court ruled today while holding the provision as unconstitutional.
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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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"Wife Not An Object, You Can't Force Her To Stay With You": Supreme Court
A woman isn't her husband's possession or an "object" and is she doesn't wish to stay with him, she can't be forced to do so, the Supreme Court said today.
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Husband Can't Be Guardian, Please Make Her Understand: Judge On Hadiya
A wife is not a chattel and the husband cannot be her guardian, the Supreme Court said today after interacting with Hadiya, a woman from Kerala, who is the alleged victim of "love jihad".
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14-Year-Old Girl Can't Be Treated As "Chattel" In Custody Battle: Supreme Court
Observing that a 14-year-old child cannot be treated as "chattel", the Supreme Court has set aside an order of the Orissa High Court allowing the biological father of a girl her custody, saying she was living happily with her paternal aunt.
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Marital Disputes Are Most Bitterly Fought Cases In Country: Bombay High Court
Children are treated like "chattel" or movable property in matrimonial disputes, Bombay High Court said while directing a woman to come to India from Thailand with her 15-year-old son so that he can meet his father and siblings.
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Not Making Tea No Provocation For Husband To Assault Wife: High Court
Upholding a 35-year-old man's conviction for assaulting his wife, the Bombay High Court has said the wife's refusal to make tea for husband could not be accepted as provocation for him to assault her, and observed that wife is "not a chattel or an object".
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What Equality? Women Superior To Men, Uma Bharti Says On Adultery Ruling
On a day the Supreme Court declared adultery is no longer a crime in India and said women cannot be treated as "chattel", union minister Uma Bharti claimed equal rights is a western concept and that in India women have been considered superior to men.
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Adultery Law Strips Woman Of Sexual Autonomy: Justice Chandrachud
The colonial-era law criminalising adultery strips women of their "sexual autonomy" and treats them as a "chattel" and "property" of their husbands, the Supreme Court ruled today while holding the provision as unconstitutional.
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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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"Wife Not An Object, You Can't Force Her To Stay With You": Supreme Court
A woman isn't her husband's possession or an "object" and is she doesn't wish to stay with him, she can't be forced to do so, the Supreme Court said today.
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Husband Can't Be Guardian, Please Make Her Understand: Judge On Hadiya
A wife is not a chattel and the husband cannot be her guardian, the Supreme Court said today after interacting with Hadiya, a woman from Kerala, who is the alleged victim of "love jihad".
