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If the husband wishes to adopt a child and his wife is living separately due to strained relationship between husband and wife, her consent would be required for adoption. Wife living apart from the husband, though utterly estranged, is still a wife, until the marital bond between the parties is

Trial involving offence against honour of woman, which shakes very core of her life and tantamount to serious blow to her supreme honour, offending both, her esteem and dignity, cannot be quashed citing ground of any kind of compromise between the parties. Offence of dacoity and rape are serious and

The State cannot misuse its dominant position by fixing lower wages of Cook employed for proving mid-day meal, resulting into forced labour which amounts to violation of fundamental right of worker and is prohibited. If a person provides labour or service to another against receipt of the minimum wage, it

While determining compenstion in motor accident claim case, the calculation of notional Income of Homemakers must be based on their work, labour and sacrifices. In this case, the Court was deciding compensation for three surviving dependents of motor accident, who claimed life of a married couple. While assessing monthly income

Wife of deceased employee being a Class-I heir of deceased, shall be entitled to stake a claim over proportionate share in retiral benefits of deceased and her right cannot be defeated by ay nominations. Deceased employee had nominated his minor daughter from first wife as a nominee to receive retiral

In India though courts have sufficient powers to pass pre-publication or pre broadcasting injunction, but same cannot be used to curtail right of freedom of speech. India's well known and leading venture capitalist and Managing Director of digital brand claimed that some women entrepreneurs have uploaded defamatory content

In the Rule of 'rotation by seniority', the word 'rotation' cannot be read in isolation from the word 'seniority'. Because of an intervening factor, a peculiar situation had arisen and the cycle of rotation broke, but thereafter appointments had to strictly follow the methodology