The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has held that the welfare of children cannot compel spouses to continue in a marriage that has ceased to be workable, confirming a divorce granted to the wife on grounds of cruelty.
“No game of hide and seek”: the Madras High Court has held that FCRA Registration was rightly refused to a Kodaikanal Zen meditation trust, since an applicant under the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act must correctly disclose its religious character. Madurai: The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has dismissed an appeal by Kanzeon Public […]
The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has dismissed a husband’s appeals against the refusal of divorce on grounds of cruelty and desertion and a decree of restitution of conjugal rights for his wife, holding that quarrels, family friction and separation do not amount to cruelty or desertion without proof of conduct of the required gravity.
Dissolving a broken-down marriage between two doctors by mutual consent, the Madras High Court has said that just as there are housewives, there can be house husbands too, and that this should become a ‘new normal’ to help preserve the institution of marriage. The Court, waiving the six-month cooling-off period, directed the husband, a cardiologist, to pay Rs 1.5 crore to the wife and Rs 50 lakh to each of their two children.
The Madras High Court refused to ban the Tamil film Karuppu, observing that portraying judicial corruption and criticising the judiciary cannot automatically amount to contempt, while emphasising that judges are not beyond scrutiny and freedom of artistic expression must be protected in a democratic society.
