First Wife Archives

Bombay High Court decides deceased’s first wife’s entitlement after she was denied pension due to second wife

The Petitioner is 86 years of age today and though she is a legally wedded wife, she received no pension after the demise of her husband for 25 years only because the second wife Rukhminibai was paid the pension after the demise of the freedom fighter husband.

Case Briefs High Courts

Whether offence of bigamy is a continuing offence or the proceedings instituted for offence punishable for bigamy under S. 494 CrPC can be obliterated on the ground of delay? Kar HC answers

Karnataka High Court: M. Nagaprasanna, J. allowed the petition in part and remarked the protagonists in the quadrangle to resolve the issue

Case Briefs High Courts

Cal HC | When can S. 29(2) of Hindu Marriage Act come to rescue of parties seeking to prove divorce on basis of custom? Read the case of a second ‘wife’ denied widow pension

Calcutta High Court: Sabyasachi Bhattacharyya, J., expressed that: Where a conflict arises between individual conscience of the concerned Judge and judicial conscience,