Jurisprudencia

India

Experta en jurisdicción: Anjali Rawat

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Supreme Court of India

Materia
Residence orders in Domestic Violence cases- Entitlement to a right to reside in the ‘shared household’, where wife was residing at the time of complaint, even though belonging to the husband’s relatives
ROL/RIT de identificación
Civil Appeal no. 2483 of 2020
Referencia de las normas

Power to do complete justice under Article 142

Gender equality; Protection from domestic violence; Discrimination

Materia
Exceptional ground of divorce upon irretrievable breakdown of marriage- Only under Supreme Court’s power to do complete justice
ROL/RIT de identificación
Civil Apepal no 1835 of 1997; AIR 1997 SC 1226
Referencia de las normas

Gender equality; Freedom of religion; Dignity

Materia
Practice of solemnizing second marriage by conversion to Islam which allows polygamy is not legal
ROL/RIT de identificación
Writ Petitions (Civil) 347/90, 509/92 and 424/92; AIR 1995 SC 1531
Referencia de las normas

Gender Equality; Freedom of religion


Nondiscrimination and women’s equality under international conventions, CEDAW, International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 1966, UDHR [See: Judgment, Para 72]

Materia
Talaq-e-Biddat or Triple Talaq (Instant Divorce) under Muslim Personal Laws declared unconstitutional
ROL/RIT de identificación
Writ Petition (Civil) 118 of 2016; (2017) 9 SCC 1
Referencia de las normas

Equality of status and opportunity; Individual dignity; Right to property without discrimination against nonmarital children; Social reform

Materia
Right to Inheritance of Hindu Joint Family Property for Children born outside wedlock
ROL/RIT de identificación
Civil Appeal no. 2844 of 2011
Referencia de las normas

Equality; Non-discrimination; Anti-stereotyping; Liberty; Autonomy; Dignity; Privacy

Materia
Decriminalisation of Adultery
ROL/RIT de identificación
Writ Petition (Criminal) no 194 of 2017, AIR 2018 SC 4898
Referencia de las normas

Right to equality; Gender discrimination 

Materia
Women’s right to Hindu Joint Family property- Retrospective application of Section 6
ROL/RIT de identificación
Civil Appeal Diary no. 32601/2018; (2020) 9 SCC 1
Referencia de las normas

Gender equality; Non-discrimination; Basic feature of the Constitution 

Materia
Increase in the age of consent in child marriages- Exception to Rape within Child Marriages annulled
ROL/RIT de identificación
Writ Petition (Civil) 382/2013
Referencia de las normas

Choice; Liberty; Freedom of religion; Kafala of Islamic Law, Article 20(3) CRC

High Courts

Materia
Woman as Karta/Manager of Hindu Joint Family property
ROL/RIT de identificación
CS(OS) 2011/2006
Referencia de las normas

Gender equality; Discrimination

Materia
Gender bias in the rules of inheritance under Hindu Succession Act
ROL/RIT de identificación
Testamentary Suit No. 86 of 2000 in Testamentary Petition No. 917 of 2000 and Testamentary Suit No. 48 of 2005 in Testamentary Petition No. 104 of 2005
Referencia de las normas

Child rights; Liberty; Dignity; Equality between married and unmarried girl children; Bodily integrity; Protection from sexual abuse; Best interests of the child 


India’s international obligations under CRC and CEDAW