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Kerala HC: A Mother Can’t Be Compelled To Choose Between Her Motherhood & Employment(22.12.2017)
Kerala High Court has said that no service regulations can stand in the way of a woman for claiming protection of her fundamental right of dignity as .....
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Employers Should be Considerate Towards Pregnant Women & Mothers: Delhi HC(14.12.2018)
Delhi High Court has said that women should be honoured and treated with dignity at workplace and asserted that employers should be sympathetic toward.....
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Bom HC: Daughter Can’t Continue Maintenance Claim of Deceased Mother(04.08.2023)
Bombay High Court while observing that right of maintenance of wife against her husband is in personam and not in rem, has held that daughter cannot c.....
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Bombay HC: Mother's Work Commitments Don't Make Her Unsuitable for Child's Custody(01.10.2021)
Bombay High Court has ruled that a minor's 'welfare' cannot be decided solely on which parent has more free time, observing that a busy actress's work.....
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Calcutta HC Directs Minor Child to Remain with Adoptive Parents(05.12.2016)
Calcutta High Court has directed that a two-year-old child would remain with a couple who had adopted her, despite biological mother's tearful plea to.....
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Bombay High Court Allows Surrogate Mother to Abort 24-Week Foetus(29.12.2018)
Bombay High Court has allowed a surrogate mother to abort her 24-week foetus, as the foetus had numerous heart abnormalities.
Tags : Bombay High Court, 24-week foetus, Surrogate Mother
Kerala HC: Person Has Right to Specify Only Mother's Name in Identity Documents(25.07.2022)
Kerala High Court has held that a person has the right to not specify the name of their father in identity document. The Court passed the order recogn.....
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Why Not Declare Newborn’s Right To Mother’s Milk A Fundamental Right: Madras HC(04.01.2018)
Madras High Court has posed a query before the Centre as to why it cannot bring an Act making it obligatory on the part of women to breastfeed as has .....
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Calcutta HC Grants Custody of 4-Yr-Old Girl to Deceased Mother's Friend Over Biological Father(13.12.2021)
Calcutta High Court has refused to grant custody of a four and a half years old girl child to her biological father and instead permitted the child to.....
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Ker. HC: Non-Consideration of Disadvantages Attributable to Motherhood will Result in Discrimination(14.12.2023)
Kerala High Court while observing that pregnancy or motherhood cannot be seen as a burden or clog on the aspiration of women in public employment, has.....
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Mother has No Right to Sell Minor's Property: Bombay High Court(25.01.2019)
Bombay High Court has ruled that when father of the minor is alive mother is a de facto guardian and she cannot sell minor's property.
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HP HC: Motherhood is Essential for Existence of Human Race; Facilities Must be Provided to her(02.01.2024)
Himachal Pradesh High Court while observing that to give birth and take care of a child is a pious role to be performed by her for the existence of So.....
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MP HC Commutes Death Penalty to Boy who Killed His Mother Because She Woke Him Up(03.04.2019)
Madhya Pradesh High Court has commuted death sentence awarded to a 'son' who killed his mother for waking him up.
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Doctor can Terminate Pregnancy Exceeding 20 Weeks Without Permission if Mother in Danger: Bombay HC(05.04.2019)
Bombay High Court has held that a registered medical practitioner may medically terminate pregnancy which has exceeded 20 weeks, without permission fr.....
Tags : Bombay High Court, Termination of Pregnancy, Mother in Danger
Delhi HC: Mother-in-Law Being Owner Not Barred from Claiming Eviction Against Daughter-in-Law(15.12.2021)
Delhi High Court has observed that the mother in law being the owner of the property is not barred from claiming eviction against her daughter in law .....
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Allahabad HC Stays Arrest of Man Booked for Cremating Mother's Dead Body in A Muslim Graveyard(23.12.2021)
Allahabad High Court has stayed the arrest of a man who has been booked under the Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act, 1984 and under various .....
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Patna HC Takes Suo Moto Cognizance of Video Showing Toddler Near Dead Mother(29.05.2020)
Patna High Court has taken suo moto cognizance of the harrowing video of a toddler trying to wake up his dead mother at the Muzaffarpur Railway Statio.....
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Telangana HC Directs Khammam District Collector to Remove Mother Theresa Statue(28.03.2022)
Telangana High Court has directed the Khammam District Collector Gautham to remove the Mother Theresa statue installed at Mutualamma circle in Khammam.....
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SC Upholds Life Sentence of Mother Convicted for Killing Her 5 Year old Child(24.02.2023)
Supreme Court while observing that they ought not to re-appreciate evidence to examine correctness of finding of fact unless there is manifest illegal.....
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Calcutta HC Dismisses Plea of Legal Insanity, Upholds Life Sentence of Man for Murdering Mother(01.02.2022)
Calcutta High Court has upheld the life sentence awarded to a man for murdering his mother by dismissing his plea of legal insanity. The Court has fur.....
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Centre to SC: Surrogate Mother Need Not be Genetically Related to Child(08.02.2023)
Supreme Court has directed Centre to give immediate effect to 3 important clarifications that Centre has issued regarding the extant regime on surroga.....
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NHRC Takes Cognizance of Mother Pulling Suitcase with Exhausted Kid Sleeping(18.05.2020)
National Human Rights Commission has taken suo motu cognizance of media reports about a mother pulling a suitcase with her small child sleeping on it .....
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Allahabad High Court: Mother-in-law Acquitted in Dowry Case After Five Years in Jail(13.05.2024)
Allahabad High Court has acquitted the mother-in-law of the deceased in a case of dowry death, after five years in jail when it was found that at the .....
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MP HC: Mother has First Claim Over the Compensation for Deceased Bachelor Son(21.04.2023)
Madhya Pradesh High Court has held that since deceased was a bachelor, by virtue of Section 8 of the Hindu Succession Act, except mother, no other Cla.....
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SC: Ethically Wrong for Estranged Daughter-in-Law to Make Mother-in-Law Bear Expenses of Children(16.09.2020)
Supreme Court has said it was ethically wrong to rope in a mother-in-law and bind her through a Court order to bear the educational expenses of her gr.....
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Delhi HC Reduces Visitation Time Granted to Mother with Respect to Her Son(23.08.2021)
Delhi High Court has reduced, with consent of the parties, the visitation time granted to a mother with respect to her son residing with her estranged.....
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Biological Mother has No Right Over Child Adopted by her Second Husband: P&H HC(29.10.2018)
Punjab and Haryana High Court has ruled that a biological mother has no right over her child after the child is adopted by her second husband.
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Allahabad HC: Father Not Absolved From Responsibility of Child Even If Mother is Earning(23.05.2022)
Allahabad High Court has held that the father is legally bound to maintain his child according to the status and lifestyle and it doesn't matter if th.....
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Madras High Court: Sons Are Duty-Bound to Look After Mother(20.11.2015)
Madras HC has ruled that as per 'dharma', sons are duty-bound to maintain the mother and directed a man settled in Canada and earning Rs. 3 lakh a mon.....
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Meg. HC: Being Mother of Minor Children No Ground to Refuse Transfer(06.07.2023)
Meghalaya High Court while upholding transfer of a woman employee has observed that rules governing the petitioner’s service do not give any latitude .....
Tags : Meghalaya High Court, Transfer, Service, Mother, Minor Children
Kar HC: No Reason why Able Bodied Person Shouldn’t be Bound to Maintain Dependant Mother(14.07.2023)
Karnataka High Court has observed that if an able-bodied person is bound to maintain his dependent wife, there is no reason why such a rule should not.....
Tags : Karnataka High Court, Dependent Mother, Maintain
P&H HC: Inclusion of Biological Mother's Name in Passport Would Not Cause Any Prejudice(21.07.2020)
Punjab and Haryana High Court has directed the Regional Passport Office to allow an applicant's request for inclusion of her biological mother's name .....
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Supreme Court: System Needs to be Made to Prevent Exploitation of Surrogate Mother(11.09.2024)
Supreme Court while hearing pleas challenging surrogacy laws, has stated that there can be a database, so that the same lady is not exploited. A syste.....
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