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Bombay High Court upholds maintenance to second wife under Section 125 of CrPC
Referring to the evidence produced by the second wife and her readiness for the DNA test, the Bombay High Court was of the view that the husband could not be allowed to deny maintenance to the second wife.
Second wife though not legally wedded in a strict sense, is entitled for service benefits of deceased husband: Andhra Pradesh High Court
“Rule 50 of the Andhra Pradesh Revised Pension Rules, 1980 is with intend to give relief to the woman becoming wife. Under such circumstances, even the wife from the second marriage was made entitled for family pension.”
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.
Complaint under S. 498-A, IPC filed by the second wife against the husband and in-laws cannot be maintainable: Karnataka High Court
The Court pointed out that ‘woman’ as per S. 498-A, IPC means and includes a legally wedded wife.
Rajasthan High Court directs State to consider compassionate appointment for son born from second wife of the deceased
Rajasthan High Court: In a case filed by the second wife (petitioner 1) of deceased who was a class IV
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
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,
Madras HC | Is an illegitimate child entitled to maintenance under S. 125 CrPC? HC reiterates legal position
Madras High Court: B. Pugalendhi, J., while addressing an issue observed and reiterated the established position of the Supreme Court that, under Section
Chh HC | Second wife, wedded in contravention of S. 5 HMA, held not entitled to share in family pension of deceased Government employee
Chhattisgarh High Court: Sanjay K. Agrawal, J. allowed a second appeal filed by the first wife of the deceased who died in harness
Family pension denied to second wife as marriage was solemnized during subsistence of first marriage
Meghalaya High Court: A Single Judge Bench comprising of Mohammad Yaqoob Mir, CJ. dismissed a writ petition filed against the order of