The Delhi High Court explained that the power to grant divorce on the ground of irretrievable breakdown of marriage is only vested in the Supreme Court, and not with High Courts, let alone family courts.
While quashing two FIRs related to a scuffle over a property dispute between relatives, the Delhi High Court has directed 24 persons involved in the case to do basic cleaning duty at four police stations in Delhi.
The Delhi High Court recently observed that a husband’s extramarital affair or betting habits cannot be grounds to implicate him under Section 304B of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), which punishes dowry deaths.
The Delhi High Court heavily criticised the IT department for filing an appeal after a delay of nearly 500 days, observing that the time has come for officials to be penalised for such lethargic conduct