CUTTACK: If a husband doubts his wife’s chastity without proof, she is “perfectly justified” to live separately and is also entitled to maintenance, Orissa high court ruled recently.Justice Gourishankar Satapathy noted this while upholding a Baripada family court order directing a man to payRs 3,000 monthly maintenance to his estranged wife. The husband had moved…
CUTTACK: More than 17 years after a 25-year-old woman walked into a police station in Odisha’s Sundargarh district and confessed to killing her husband, the Orissa high court has overturned the life sentence awarded to her, saying the trial court verdict was based on “surmises and conjectures”, and was a “miscarriage of justice“.Laulina Achariya of…
CUTTACK: Orissa high court has suspended the life sentence awarded to former Chhatrapur MLA Nagireddy Narayan Reddy and two others for their alleged role in a police inspector‘s murder during an agitation against land acquisition for a steel project in Ganjam district in 1998, reports Lalmohan Patnaik.HC ordered their release on bail on such terms…
