In an interesting order, the Allahabad High Court has said that a married woman who is in a live-in relationship without ending her marriage first is committing a crime and her partner is also culpable.
In a laudable judgment, the Bombay High Court waived the six months’ cooling-off period under the Hindu Marriage Act as the woman was pregnant by another man.
The Supreme Court offered a ray of hope to victims of domestic violence when it gave an order recently which dealt with questions of law pertaining to the interpretation and working of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005.
A plea has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking directions to frame guidelines for Uniform Grounds of Divorce and to declare as discriminatory other grounds of divorce, as prevalent in different communities, as violative of Articles 14, 15, 21.
The Bombay High Court on Friday has allowed the application of a father seeking access to his two minor children via video conferencing taking note of the fact that physical access cannot be exercised in the present prevalent situation of coronavirus-induced lockdown.