New Delhi, June 12 (IANS) The Supreme Court has held that courts dealing with child custody and visitation disputes must guard against subjecting children to repeated psychological evaluations, cautioning that such processes can lead to “secondary victimisation” and “re-traumatisation”, particularly in cases involving allegations of sexual abuse. A bench of Justices Sanjay Karol and N. Kotiswar Singh on Thursday modified Bombay High Court orders that had first substituted the appointment of a si…
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New Delhi, May 7 (IANS) The Delhi High Court has upheld a Family Court order directing a man to pay monthly maintenance to his wife under Section 125 of the CrPC, despite his contention that her earlier marriage had not been formally dissolved at the time of their marriage. A single-judge Bench of Justice Saurabh Banerjee, while dismissing a revision petition filed by Raj Kumar, refused to interfere with the Family Court’s February 2018 order granting maintenance of Rs 3,000 per month to the w…
New Delhi, March 13 (IANS) Observing that delays in judicial proceedings cannot operate to the disadvantage of the claimant, the Delhi High Court has held that interim maintenance awarded to a wife and her children under Section 125 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) should ordinarily be granted from the date of filing the application, rather than from the date of the court’s order. A single-judge Bench of Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma modified an order passed by a Family Court, which had…
New Delhi, Jan 7 (IANS) The Delhi High Court has enhanced the interim maintenance awarded to a woman in a matrimonial dispute from Rs 2,500 to Rs 3,500 per month, holding that the husband’s allegation that she was employed as a nursery teacher was unsupported by any documentary evidence.A single-judge Bench of Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma partly allowed a criminal revision petition filed by the wife, who had challenged an order of the Family Court, Shahdara, granting her Rs 2,500 per month as …