Reliance on WhatsApp chats alone insufficient to grant divorce on grounds of cruelty: Bombay HC
“Merely relying on the WhatsApp chat, the divorce decree cannot be granted, since it is not proved by leading evidence.”
Cruelty
Wife’s convenience no longer paramount in matrimonial transfer petitions: Madhya Pradesh HC
“Now the convenience of the wife/lady is not the paramount consideration for deciding the transfer applications and alternatives to transfer proceedings have been provided.”
Family Law January 2026 Roundup: Key Supreme Court & High Court Judgments on Divorce, Custody, Maintenance and More
Explore the key family law developments of January 2026, featuring the Supreme Court and various High Courts on adoption, annulment of marriage, custody, divorce, maintenance and much more.
“Invasion of privacy and humiliation”: Madhya Pradesh HC denies relief to husband who sought virginity test of his wife
“So far as the medical examination to ascertain whether the wife has ever entered into a sexual relationship or not, is concerned, it is nothing but seeking a virginity test of the wife, in other words.”
Jharkhand High Court: Concealment of age and murder conviction before marriage amounts to mental cruelty, destroys trust
“The conduct of the wife by concealing the material fact about her age and her conviction of life in a murder case, before contracting marriage, has caused mental agony to the husband to such an extent that it is almost impossible for them to live together.”
“Forced unnatural sex by husband is cruelty under S. 498A IPC, not rape”: MP HC quashes Rape, Section 377 IPC charges
“Forced unnatural sex by a husband on his wife amounts to cruelty under Section 498A of the IPC, but cannot be prosecuted as rape under Section 376 of the IPC as in a Section 377 context, marital rape concept is not recognized under current law because of the express marital exception in Section 375.”
Jharkhand HC: Divorce granted as husband’s blackmail with objectionable photos and threats to upload them on social media amounted to mental cruelty
“Such intimidation and infliction of emotional and psychological distress using wife’s past history to blackmail itself constitutes mental cruelty.”
Family Law Cases 2025: How Indian Courts Balanced Justice and Misuse
This legal roundup travels across various Courts to discuss top Family Law cases from 2025, such as admissibility of Recorded Spousal Conversations Admissible as Evidence, False Cases, Ratan Tata’s Will, Yuzvendra Chahal’s Divorce, Saif Ali Khan’s Ancestral Property, and much more.
Chhattisgarh High Court upholds divorce due to cruelty by wife who concealed her infertility
The Court noted that the wife admitted in her written statement and oral testimony that after taking medication she had become capable of bearing children.
CRIMINAL LAW ROUNDUP: A quick recap of the top criminal cases from November 2025
Covering all the important criminal cases across various High Courts and the Supreme Court, this roundup provides a quick summary of cases, links to other roundups, latest legal updates in criminal law and a few top stories of the month.
Top Family and Personal Law Stories of November 2025 You Should Know
Catch up with the latest developments in Family and Personal Laws across various High Courts and Supreme Court.
HIGH COURT WEEKLY ROUNDUP 2025 [24th to 30th November] | Amit Baghel’s Hate Speech; Hermes’ Birkin Bag; Gold Flake Trade Mark; and more
A quick legal roundup to cover important stories from all High Courts this week.
“Deriving pleasure from difficulties & tension of other is cruelty”: Madhya Pradesh HC grants divorce to woman after husband’s refusal despite irretrievably broken marriage
The Court remarked that when the other party opposes the prayer for divorce despite their being no possibility of them living together, such conduct of party deriving pleasure from difficulties and tension of the other party also amounts to cruelty.
“Allegations of spending habits, household contribution, or mobile usage, without proof of severe mental harassment, not cruelty”: Madhya Pradesh HC
“The husband married the wife of his own volition through social media, and if household habits or lifestyle preferences were material factors to him, they could have been ascertained before marriage.”
‘Trial Court cannot grant divorce merely for wife’s absence’; Bombay HC sets aside ex parte divorce granted on Husband’s unchallenged testimony
“The only reason why the Trial Court found that the wife has treated the husband with cruelty is, that the testimony of the husband had gone unchallenged.”
Apathy towards aged in-laws, prolonged denial of intimacy and false complaints against husband amounts to cruelty: Delhi HC
“Sustained neglect of marital obligations, coupled with acts designed to exacerbate discord, eroded the very foundation of the matrimonial bond.”
False allegation of alcoholism against husband, compromising his social position as public servant is cruelty: Madhya Pradesh HC
“A persistent resolved attitude of respondent-wife to see that her husband is ridiculed and humiliated in his social circle as an alcoholic is definitely a serious affair.”
Supreme Court emphasises on caution and consideration of pragmatic realities by courts while dealing with matrimonial cases
“The Court explained that mere general allegations of harassment and cruelty without pointing out the specific details would not be sufficient to continue criminal proceedings against any person”.
Insulting and humiliating spouse during time of financial vulnerability amounts to mental cruelty: Chhattisgarh HC
“Her behaviour, including instigating the daughter against the father, making unfounded demands during a financially unstable period, and leaving the home with the daughter while abandoning the son, demonstrated a pattern of mental harassment and disregard for the matrimonial bond.”
Mere crying of woman does not prove dowry harassment: Delhi High Court upholds discharge of husband and in-laws in dowry death case
It is quite understandable that being the deceased’s father, he would have been highly traumatized due to untimely death of his daughter. However, it is quite evident from his first statement that no details of the alleged harassment of the daughter were mentioned.