New Delhi: Faced with a "piquant" case of a 13-year-old girl marrying a youth and refusing to go back to her parents, the Delhi High Court on Monday asked the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights to ensure her safe custody and education till settlement of the case.
"This is an extremely piquant situation where she has vehemently opposed restoration of her custody to the parents," said a bench of justices Gita Mittal and JR Midha, while asking the NCPCR to refer her case to a Children Welfare Committee (CWC).
"We direct that the NCPCR would ensure that proper steps are taken in this regard and it (panel) would ensure her safe custody, education, counselling and conciliation," the court said and made it clear that the youth, to whom she married, would not be arrested till October 11, next date of hearing.
It also said the parents of the youth will also be not arrested in the case....
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08:31 PM, Aug 27, 2012
Ambala (Haryana): Several policemen were injured after a mob pelted stones at the team which had gone to a village here to rescue a runaway couple. The incident took place on Thursday at Ravi Dass Basti village, police said. Several police personnel, including ACP Raj Kumar Walia, were injured in the incident, they said, adding that the mob also ransacked the police vehicles. The couple got married around four months...
09:50 PM, Jul 13, 2012
Lucknow: A village panchayat in Bagpat district of Uttar Pradesh has banned love marriage, barred women below 40 years of age from going out for shopping and girls from using mobile phones on the streets. The panchayat at Asara village in Ramala area has issued the diktats restraining women below 40 from going to markets and using mobile in the village or outside, official sources said on Thursday. The panchayat...
11:58 PM, Jul 12, 2012
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court has held that refusal by a wife to conceive a child because of family's financial instability could not be used as a ground for divorce by her husband. "Also, not knowing how to cook, not being religious, not parting with salary and not folding clothes properly," could not be treated as grounds for divorce, ruled Justice PB Majmudar and Justice Anoop Mohta. The bench was,...
07:16 PM, May 04, 2012
New Delhi: A city resident has been ordered by a Delhi court to pay Rs 8,000 as monthly compensation to his wife, allegedly turned out of the house by him after nearly 33 years of their marriage. Metropolitan Magistrate Monika Saroha ordered compensation for the woman, expressing surprise that the woman, married in 1978 and allegedly turned out of the house by her husband in 2010, did not raise voice...
05:32 PM, Apr 24, 2012
London: Schools in Britain will be 'forced' to teach children the importance of gay marriage, in a bid to redefine the institution of marriage, and teachers who refuse could face disciplinary action, a media report said. According to the Daily Express, ministers are pushing ahead with a legal overhaul of the definition of marriage. The government will reportedly publish next month a report on giving same-sex marriage the same legal...
10:10 AM, Feb 27, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has said that a child born of an inter-caste marriage cannot be denied the right to reservations just on the basis of one of the parents being upper caste. The apex court said the child's upbringing is key to making that decision. The court said, "While determining the caste of a child born to a forward caste man and a tribal woman, the child will...
10:28 AM, Jan 19, 2012
Vatican City: Pope Benedict XVI told priests Saturday to do a better job counseling would-be spouses to ensure their marriages last and said no one has an absolute right to a wedding. Benedict made the comments in his annual speech to the Roman Rota, the Vatican tribunal that decides marriage annulments. An annulment is the process by which the church effectively declares that a marriage never took place. Benedict acknowledged...
11:37 AM, Jan 23, 2011
New Delhi: Love commandos, a group of volunteers who claim to be on a mission to help "love birds", said that all the states must set up block level love birds help committee to promote love, peace and a casteless society. "We demand setting up of block level love birds committees by the state to empower the couples so that the country can move towards a casteless society which can...
05:26 PM, Jan 13, 2011
Berkeley (California): A federal appeals court has said it cannot decide if California's gay marriage ban is constitutional until the state's highest court weighs in on whether Proposition 8's sponsors have the authority to defend the measure. A three-judge panel of the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals issued an order asking the California Supreme Court to decide if ballot proposition backers can step in to defend voter-approved initiatives in...
11:03 AM, Jan 05, 2011
Islamabad: A man in Pakistan's Punjab province was publicly beaten up by his two wives, who claimed that he is about to marry for the fifth time. Mian Ishaq, a resident of Gujranwala city, was attending a friend's wedding reception with his third wife when his two other wives Mehvish and Uzma gate-crashed with dozens of relatives and beat him up before the guests yesterday. "We know that he is...
02:25 PM, Jan 04, 2011
New York: Some plan to re-enlist. Others want to turn to the fight for same-sex marriage. Still more will celebrate a triumph of civil rights. But for many of those kicked out of the U.S. military for serving while openly gay or being "outted" as gay, Wednesday's repeal of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy means more than a political victory. They say it will strengthen the armed forces. The...
11:06 AM, Dec 23, 2010
Toronto: The reported decision by Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie to have a Hindu wedding in an ashram in Rajasthan next year to formalize their live-in relationship has drawn curious reaction from the Canadian media and readers. Isn't Hollywood's hottest couple, like other celebrities, trying to appropriating Hindu culture to make their wedding look glamourous? asks the Globe and Mail in its lifestyle section. "Actually, it all makes sense,'' it...
03:07 PM, Dec 17, 2010
Kathmandu: Bands played joyously, Brahmins chanted mantras and women showered flowers as Nepal on Friday celebrated a "marriage made in heaven" thousands of years ago and forming one of its earliest social links with India. The temple town Janakpur in southern Nepal along the Indo-Nepal border, where Hindu epic Ramayana comes alive this time every year, is witnessing the replay of marriage of Ram, the Hindu icon and exemplary king...
04:50 PM, Dec 10, 2010
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05:49 PM, Apr 11, 2010
Karachi: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has said it can ban Shahid Afridi from participating in the inaugural Sri Lanka Premier League (SLPL) if the former Pakistan captain doesn't stop his rants against the board. Earlier this month, the PCB granted Afridi a No Objection Certificate (NOC) to play for Hampshire in English Twenty20 league after their bitter dispute was settled out of court. But Afridi's continued tirade has irked...
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