Laws Relating to Cruelty and Offences Against Husbands (with detailed Case Laws of Supreme Court & different High Courts)

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Description
The criminal laws, in our country have gone through some drastic changes to protect women, which has led to giving more teeth to the existing laws. As these laws are non-compoundable and non-bail able, the chances of compromise between the spouses, during / after litigation, are bleak. According to the Apex Court, "cruelty" is the "conduct in relation to or in respect of matrimonial conduct in respect of matrimonial obligations". It is the conduct which adversely affects the spouse, husband included. Such cruelty can be either 'mental' or 'physical'. Intention is not an essential element of cruelty but it may be present. Physical cruelty is less ambiguous and more "a question of fact and degree." Mental cruelty has sky the limit. Definition of mental. Cruelty has no precise definition. In a case, the wife alleged in her written statement that her husband was suffering from "mental problems and paranoid disorder". The wife's lawyer also leveled allegations of "lunacy" and "insanity" against the husband and his family while he was conducting a cross-examination. The court held these allegations against the husband to constitute "cruelty".
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Contents
Glitters of Justice for Husbands
I.      Words, Phrases and Interpretation
II.     Introduction
III.    Cruelty against Husband
IV.    Impotency of Male or Female - Sexual Relation and Cohabitation
V.     Concealment of Material facts from Husband at the time of Marriage
VI.    Desertion by Wife
VII.   Adultery of Wife
VIII.  Constitutional of the law of Adultery
IX.    Mental Aliments of Wife
X.     Irretrievable Breakdown of Marriage and Reconciliation
XI.    Divorce by Mutual Consent
XII.   Judicial Separation
XII.   Restitution of Conjugal Rights
XIV.  Marital Rape
XV.   Custody of Child
XVI.   Maintenance, Alimony etc.
XVII.  Wife Killing the Husband
XVIII.  Husband Killing the Wife - Offence not Proved
XIX.    Suicide (Offence under Section 306 IPC)
XX.     Matrimonial Offences (Under Sections 498A-304-B IPC)
XXI.    Allegations of Bigamy against Husband
XXII.   Murder - Grave & Sudden Provocation - Illicit Relations
XXIII.  Family Court Act..... Talaq & Re-Marriage.... Husband under Muslim Personal Law can not be
             Restrained from Remarrying  
XXIV.   Second Marriage of the Wife During the Lifetime of the First Marriage
XXV.     Alternative Dispute Resolution
Appendices
Subject Index
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Author Details
V.K. Dewan :  Senior Advocate Guwahati High Court
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