The Bombay High Court held that a long-term intimate partnership marked by repeated cohabitation and child birth amounts to a relationship in the nature of marriage under the DV Act. It refused to quash the case against him.
The Supreme Court dissolved a couple’s marriage, recognizing it had irretrievably broken down after failed mediation efforts. Citing constitutional discretion, the court emphasized the necessity of ending a non-functional marriage and ordered the husband to pay Rs 13 lakh in alimony and Rs 7 lakh for their daughter’s welfare.
On Wednesday, the Bombay High Court ordered the Maharashtra government to give medical aid to a pregnant 17-year-old girl who turned away from hospitals for not filing a formal complaint against the boy who made her conceive. The petition, represented by advocate Nigel Quraishy, argued that hospitals denied the girl medical care because she chose not to file a police complaint against a college student with whom she had a consensual relationship. The bench presided by Justices GS Kulkarni and FP Pooniwalla ordered that the shelter home mentioned in the petition must admit the girl to provide necessary care and assistance.