As countries around the world grapple with the prospect of renewed closures, the Australian city of Melbourne offers a harsh lesson on the costs of controlling the coronavirus. The city of 5 million people emerged Wednesday from one of the world’s longest and tightest closures that shuttered businesses and confined …
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The Supreme Court has granted women fighting domestic violence cases the right to reside in the ‘shared home’ even if their husband had no legal right to the house and the house was owned by the father-in-law or mother-in-law. A bench of three judges headed by Judge Ashok Bhushan approved …
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The Supreme Court said that a separated daughter-in-law cannot be evicted by her husband or family members. New Delhi: A woman can stay in her husband’s family home even if she is separated from him, the Supreme Court said today, overturning its earlier decision to the contrary. A separated daughter-in-law …
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Additional DGP Purushottam Sharma of Madhya Pradesh tried to defend an act of assaulting his wife on camera | Image Credit: Twitter NCW President Rekha Sharma wrote to Madhya Pradesh’s Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan, demanding strict action against senior police officer Purushottam Sharma, who was recorded beating his wife. …
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Mumbai: After a video of the Director General of Police in charge of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, Purushottam Sharma, beating his wife appeared on social media, the Madhya Pradesh government decided to relieve him of his duties. An order, signed by the Department of the Interior, said that the 1986 …
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The actor-turned-deputy and deputy general manager of Biju Janata Dal in Lok Sabha Anubhav Mohanty got into trouble after his wife Varsha Priyadarshini, a former Odia film actor, accused him of physical and mental torture. In her petition filed in Cuttack Subdivisional Judicial Magistrate court under section 12 of the …
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A journalist was shot dead at her home in the Turbat area of Balochistan’s Kech district on Saturday night allegedly by her husband, police said. This is the latest incident in a series of gruesome examples of domestic violence in Pakistan. The victim, Shaheena Shaheen, was a local PTV anchor …
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