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Written by Suresh Dharur
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Monday, 30 August 2010 08:31 |
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Hyderabad, August 29: Justice at jet speed. That is what seems to be the motto of a young civil judge in Andhra Pradesh who has created a national record by disposing of 111 cases on a single day.
For JVV Satyanarayana Murthy, a 40-year-old junior judge in a small coastal town of Mangalagiri, justice brooks no delay. Virtually racing against time, he is on a mission to reduce pendency in his court. On Thursday last, Murthy set a record by delivering judgments in 111 cases, bringing much relief to the litigants. The previous national record was the clearing of 80 cases by a court in Mumbai.
A majority of them were petty cases. In 78 of these cases, the accused had confessed to the offences, resulting in the imposition of fines totalling Rs 99,500. Most of the cases related to theft, street brawls, domestic quarrels and road accidents.
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Written by TNN
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Monday, 23 August 2010 22:39 |
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BANGALORE: At the last point of investigation, Sathish Kumar Gupta claimed that harassment drove him to murder his wife Priyanka Gupta.
"First, we took him into confidence, giving him hope that we would help him out. Till then, he tried denying the charges against him. Once he gained confidence, he opened up. He seems to have his own story to tell, which resulted in him ruining his own life,'' said investigation officer inspector Balarame Gowda.
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Written by ET Bureau
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Sunday, 22 August 2010 11:48 |
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Bangalore is not just the Silicon Valley of India, it is also India’s shining star on the global business map, thanks to its infotech prowess. But did we know that behind the curtains, it is also a champion when it comes to sexual harassment cases at the workplace?
But so says an ET-Synovate survey conducted in seven cities to find out how India Inc was dealing with an issue, that has recently seen heads rolling at two top global firms in a span of a month. What’s surprising is that in the same city, half of who agreed that they have been sexually harassed at their workplace said they have been harassed by their female colleagues.
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Written by TNN
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Tuesday, 17 August 2010 10:52 |
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NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has plainly told the government to take a relook at the anti-dowry law -- Section 498A of Indian Penal Code -- saying it has been misused by women to lodge false or exaggerated complaints against husbands and their relatives accusing them of cruel behaviour.
Such is the level of exaggeration of cruel behaviour on the part of husbands and their relatives that "to find out the truth is a Herculean task in a majority of these complaints", said a bench comprising Justices Dalveer Bhandari and K S Radhakrishnan.
Expressing concern at the rise in number of complaints under Section 498A, the Bench said, "We come across a large number of such complaints which are not even bona fide and are filed with oblique motives."
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Written by Express news service
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Sunday, 29 August 2010 08:20 |
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New Delhi: Giving a new dimension to equality of sexes in modern times, the Delhi High Court on Friday held that an unemployed man cannot be forced by the laws to “beg, borrow and steal” but pay alimony to his wife.
“Under the prevalent laws, a husband is supposed to maintain his unearning spouse out of the income he earns. No law, however, provides a husband has to maintain his wife, living separately from him, irrespective of the fact whether he earns or not,” said Justice S N Dhingra.
Interpretating the laws pertaining to maintenance in the wake of changing times, Justice Dhingra said, “Court cannot tell the husband that he should beg, borrow or steal but give maintenance to his wife, more so when the husband and wife are almost qualified and capable of earning and both of them claimed to be gainfully employed before marriage.”
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Written by Express News Service
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Sunday, 22 August 2010 11:50 |
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BANGALORE: The High Court has strongly condemned the investigating officers for blindly registering cases of dowry harassment, without looking into the provisions under section 498A of Indian Penal Code (IPC).
While quashing the criminal proceedings initiated against the petitioners under 498A of IPC at the court of the chief metropolitan magistrate, Bangalore, Justice Subhash B Adi observed that the police had not taken into consideration section 498A of IPC to know whether the allegation amounted to cruelty, the court observed.
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Written by Vineeta Pandey
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Sunday, 22 August 2010 11:47 |
New Delhi: In a move that may provide some respite to harassed husbands (and their families) facing false dowry harassment charges, the central government has asked the states to prevent misuse of the Dowry Prohibition Act and section 498A (cruelty for dowry) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
In a note addressed to the state chief secretaries, the government has asked the police and courts to handle matrimonial disputes and complaints of harassment for dowry with utter care and caution. In cases of matrimonial disputes, the first recourse should be to mediate between the warring spouses and their families. They can file charges under Section 498A of the IPC only where conciliation efforts have failed, and when there is a prima facie case under Section 498A and other laws.
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Written by J. Venkatesan
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Monday, 16 August 2010 17:47 |
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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday asked Parliament to revisit the provision relating to cruelty and dowry harassment, pointing out that a large number of frivolous complaints are filed and courts are flooded with such matrimonial cases.
A Bench of Justice Dalveer Bhandari and Justice K.S. Radhakrishnan said “a serious relook of the entire provision is warranted by the legislation.”
It said: “The courts are receiving a large number of cases emanating from section 498-A of the Indian Penal Code (Husband or relative of husband of a woman subjecting her to cruelty).
It is also a matter of common knowledge that exaggerated versions of the incident are reflected in a large number of complaints. The tendency of over implication is also reflected in a very large number of cases.”
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