The Kerala High Court has declared a wife the exclusive owner of 7 cents of land and a two-storey house at Manjeri, bought in the joint names of the spouses with her father’s money, and directed the husband to vacate within three months, while rejecting her claim for 80 sovereigns of gold, Rs 3.35 lakh and past maintenance and the husband’s counterclaim.
The Karnataka High Court, Dharwad Bench, has held that Section 14 of the Family Courts Act overrides the certificate requirement of Section 65-B of the Evidence Act, so a Family Court may receive video recordings without a certificate, and has upheld the dismissal of a husband’s suit to declare his marriage void and a decree of restitution of conjugal rights for his wife.
