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    Jharkhand High Court building, illustrating the ruling upholding a bribery conviction but reducing the sentence
    The Jharkhand High Court upheld a railway clerk's conviction for a Rs 100 bribe taken in 1995 but reduced his sentence, citing the three-decade delay and his age.
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    Jharkhand High Court Grants Wife Divorce, Says Forcing Her To Accept Husband’s Affair Is Mental Cruelty

    Jharkhand High Court grants wife divorce after holding that a husband’s insistence that she accept his extramarital relationship and live with the other woman as a “younger sister” is mental cruelty of the gravest kind, and that the Family Court’s contrary finding was perverse. Ranchi: The Jharkhand High Court has dissolved the marriage of two […]

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    DMK moves Madras High Court seeking direction to the SIT probing the Veeramani POCSO case to summon the Chief Minister and two Ministers
    The DMK, through its Treasurer T.R. Baalu, has asked the Madras High Court to direct the SIT to summon the Chief Minister and two Ministers, who it says publicly claimed to hold evidence.
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    Madras High Court Refuses Husband Divorce; Says Childlessness Not Cruelty, Marriage Not Only For Procreation

    A Division Bench of the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court dismissed a husband’s appeal against refusal of divorce on grounds of cruelty, holding that childlessness cannot be converted into a matrimonial fault of the wife and that marriage cannot be reduced to the sole object of procreation.

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    “WhatsApp Chats Alone Can’t Prove Cruelty”: Bombay High Court Sets Aside Divorce Decree
    “WhatsApp Chats Alone Can’t Prove Cruelty”: Bombay High Court Sets Aside Divorce Decree
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    “WhatsApp Chats Alone Can’t Prove Cruelty”: Bombay High Court Sets Aside Divorce Decree

    The Bombay High Court ruled that divorce cannot be granted solely based on WhatsApp chats without proper proof and without giving the other spouse a chance to contest the evidence. The Court set aside an ex-parte divorce granted by the Nashik Family Court and ordered a fresh hearing.

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