Madras High Court sets aside a Family Court order that declined jurisdiction over a mutual-consent divorce petition, holding the petition ought to have been entertained where filed since the husband resided within those local limits.
Bombay High Court sets aside a Pune Family Court order that handed a minor boy's interim custody to his father after the lower court sermonised on the "pious duties" of a wife, holding such stereotyped reasoning is regressive and has no place in a child-welfare determination.
Rajasthan High Court sets aside a Family Court order and grants divorce in a 22-year marriage, holding that the wife's denial of cohabitation since 2005 combined with a since-failed Section 498-A complaint against the husband amounted to cruelty.