The Madras High Court recently made a significant ruling regarding Muslim men taking multiple wives. It said that the wife cannot stop the husband from entering into a second marriage, but she has the right to seek maintenance and refuse to be a part of the matrimonial household
The Madras High Court in a recent judgment held that “spousal privacy is a fundamental right and documents violating it are not evidence”. The Madurai bench of the Court refused to accept as evidence the call record documents of a woman, obtained stealthily by her husband to seek divorce on the grounds of adultery and cruelty. The verdict is important as it goes a long way in maintaining that the right to privacy trumps all rights
A landmark verdict has reinterpreted the POCSO Act so as to provide a stronger legal structure to curb child porn and proposed a new term for this offence to differentiate from adult pornography
R2P is a tentacular right that applies to all aspects of life. It took an unexpected turn recently in a case of religious rite, with the Madras High Court saying that the right also extends to one’s spiritual orientation