High Court of Punjab & Haryana Judgment or Order or Notification Archives - Shades of Knife

Bhawna Rani Vs Gurdeep Singh on 27 Nov 2025

ShadesOfKnife — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 15:27:21 +0000

A single Judge of Punjab and Haryana High Court held as follows, From Para 15, 15. The judgments relied upon by learned counsel for the respondent-husband in the cases of Sheetal Patil (supra), Alipka @ Lokesh (supra) and Kanchan (supra) are that of High Courts of Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Bombay, respectively. Since two Division Bench […]

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Kamaljeet Kaur and Anr Vs Harbhajan Singh and Anr on 26 Aug 2022

Suprajaa Rajan — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 18:02:51 +0000

The High Court held that initiation of proceedings under Section 340 Cr.P.C. was justified where the court found possible false statements regarding employment in a maintenance petition. The Court observed that such proceedings aim to protect the sanctity of judicial processes. The Court ruled that the truth of the allegations must emerge during the enquiry. […]

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Anu Aggarwal Vs Sushant Aggarwal on 20 Jan 2026

ShadesOfKnife — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 17:06:29 +0000

A single judge bench of Punjab and Haryana High Court held as follows, From Paras 5 and 6, (Lies about adopting a child!) 5. The evidence brought on record clearly demolishes the case now being sought to be set up by the petitioner. The petitioner had taken a plea that she had adopted a child, […]

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Asha Rani Vs Ranjit Singh on 11 Dec 2024

ShadesOfKnife — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 14:47:49 +0000

A single Judge of Punjab and Haryana High Court held as follows, From Para 8, 8. However, it is admitted fact on record that the petitioner is a qualified MA (in Punjabi) and B.Ed. On a Court query, learned counsel for the petitioner has admitted that the petitioner is not working despite being able bodied. […]

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Jaspal Kaur alias Pinki and Ors Vs State of Punjab and Anr on 24 Apr 2023

ShadesOfKnife — Thu, 30 May 2024 07:44:13 +0000

A single judge of Punjab and Haryana High Court passed the following guidelines From Para 10, 10. This Court has observed that everyday petitions are filed before this Court under Section 482 Cr.P.C assailing petition filed under Section 12 and notice under Section 13 of DV Act. It has further been noticed that parties are […]

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Sunita and Anr Vs Pyare Lal and Ors on 08 Nov 2010

ShadesOfKnife — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 03:10:11 +0000

A single judge bench of Punjab and Haryana High Court held as follows, In view of above admitted and proved facts, the appellants have no right to claim maintenance from respondents no. 1 and 2 or right of residence in the disputed house. Under Section 18 of the Act, a Hindu wife can claim maintenance […]

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Satpal Vs Suman and Ors on 31 May 2019

ShadesOfKnife — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 14:40:35 +0000

A division bench of Punjab and Haryana High Court, relying on Vimalben, held as follows, In the case of Vimalben Ajitbhai Patel (Supra), the Supreme Court has held that “maintenance of a married wife, during subsistence of marriage, is on the husband. It is a personal obligation. The obligation tomaintain a daughter-in-law arises only when […]

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Bhanu Kiran Vs Rahul Khosla and Ors on 28 Feb 2023

ShadesOfKnife — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 02:52:54 +0000

A single judge passed this Restricted Order (only downloadable for litigants/advocates on the case), From Paras 20 and 21, Under DV Act, Magistrate is competent to pass final as well as interim orders. Sessions Court is appointed as appellate authority to entertain appeal against order passed by Magistrate. As per petitioner, appellate Court is not […]

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Ritu @ Ridhima and Another Vs Sandeep Singh Sangwan on 15 Mar 2022

ShadesOfKnife — Sun, 15 Jan 2023 10:19:18 +0000

A single judge bench of Punjab and Haryana High Court held that there is nothing wrong in initiating the Perjury proceedings against the Assistant Professor when she was caught lying about her job and income, just before filing the maintenance case. From Para 10 and 11, 10. Admittedly, the petitioner joined as an Assistant Professor […]

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Joginder Singh Vs Rajwinder Kaur on 29 Oct 2022

ShadesOfKnife — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 09:54:16 +0000

Similar to this Order here, same (judge!) division bench of High Court of Punjab & Haryana passed this Order too. Again, abuser gets divorce and 10 lakhs!!! In our view, once criminal litigation is initiated between the parties it leads to a point of no return. And if it is a false case filed by […]

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