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Bombay High Court Dismisses Writ Petition Challenging Concurrent Findings in Domestic Violence Case. Evidence of Marriage Registration, Joint Bank Account, and Family Pension Sufficient to Establish Relationship in Nature of Marriage Under Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005.

The case arose from an application filed by the respondent, a woman, under Section 12 of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 befo...

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High Court of Karnataka Quashes Domestic Violence Proceedings Against Senior Citizen Mother-in-Law. Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 cannot be invoked against a female relative who is not in a domestic relationship with the complainant.

The petitioner, Smt. Shakuntala Beleri, a 78-year-old widow and senior citizen, filed a Criminal Petition under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Pr...

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Supreme Court Dismisses Appeal of Vendees in Pre-emption Suit under Punjab Pre-emption Act, 1913. The Court held the 1964 Amendment Act clarificatory and retrospective, and a step-daughter is a 'son or daughter' under Section 15(2)(b).

The dispute concerned a claim for pre-emption of agricultural land sold by a widow to the appellants. The respondent, a daughter of the deceased lando...

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Supreme Court Upholds Interim Maintenance Under Domestic Violence Act Against Brother-in-Law Based on Joint Family Business and Shared Household Allegations. Court declines to interfere with interim maintenance order at this stage, leaving merits for trial.

The Supreme Court disposed of an appeal against an interim maintenance order under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005. The first...

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Bombay High Court at Goa Allows First Wife's Claim for Family Pension Over Invalid Second Marriage. Second Marriage Contracted Without Consent During Subsistence of First Marriage Held Void Under Goa Family Laws and Civil Service (Conduct) Rules, 1964.

The petitioner, Mrs. Banu Shaikh, filed a writ petition before the Bombay High Court at Goa seeking family pension as the legally wedded wife of the d...

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Bombay High Court Adjudicates Testamentary Suit Over Letters of Administration of Intestate Estate. Heirs' rights to apply for administration and valuation of deceased's partnership interest were contested, with caveator's objection not withdrawn despite release deed.

The proceedings concerned a petition for Letters of Administration to the estate of Shankarrao H. Parelkar, who died intestate on 8 November 1979. He ...

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Bombay High Court Dismisses Criminal Writ Petition Seeking Quashing of Domestic Violence Complaint. The High Court Holds That 'Respondent' Under Section 2(q) of D.V. Act Includes Female Relatives and Proceeding Cannot Be Quashed at Threshold.

The dispute arose from a domestic violence complaint filed by the widow of one Trimbak Foke under Section 12 of the Protection of Women from Domestic ...