Justice Vinod Diwakar

relief in 21 -year- old dowry case
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“This prolonged and unexplained inaction by the Trial Court constitutes not only a denial of timely justice, but also a serious erosion of the rule of law and a violation of the wife’s fundamental right to a fair and expeditious trial.”

Custody of minor girl
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“The principle that the father is the natural guardian of the minor child-boy or unmarried girl, and after him, the mother is primarily derived from section 6 of the Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act, 1956, though seminal at its time. Now it smacks patriarchal bias, therefore, become obsolete in the progressive realities of 21st- century in India”