The Madhya Pradesh High Court has held that forced unnatural sex by a husband amounts to cruelty under Section 498A IPC, but it cannot be treated as rape under Section 376 or unnatural offence under Section 377 IPC.
The Delhi High Court held that a wife’s right to reside in her shared household under the Domestic Violence Act cannot be denied merely because her husband was disowned by his parents, affirming that the marital home qualifies as shared regardless of ownership.
The Telangana High Court declared a second marriage invalid under the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, due to the husband’s failure to divorce his first wife, who had been in a coma. The court annulled the marriage, held the husband guilty of rape for misleading the woman, and granted her alimony.
