Legal questions

Compliant on Interior designing company for not completing the work

We booked our interior work with a design company in the month of October. And we finalized the work and made the payment for the initial phase & the company had promised and shared an agreement to handoff the finished flat by the 2nd week of February. The final payment was made in December as per their request. So, we have made all the payments last year. It has been more than 6 months now and...

Avoiding service of Notice using devious means.

In the Year 2019, I had filed Petition for Cancellation of maintenance awarded to wife under Domestic Violence Act , but Advocate representing my wife after seeing the papers filed and circumstances of spouses knew for sure that maintenance Order would be cancelled. He charges his female clients contingency fees around 30% of actual maintenance amount recovered in matter by Oral Agreement. Thi...

Arbitrary blocking of banking services and refusal to resolve issue by HDFC

I am a customer of HDFC Bank, and I had requested for a change of address on my account. The process was completed successfully, but 2 days later HDFC blocked my account without notice. Upon many attempts to understand the rationale, I was finally told it is because their postal service partner could not deliver a letter to the new address. To note here is, I was never contacted by delivery per...

Quashing of the FIR, which includes sections 8(c) r/w 20(b)(ii)(B) of the NDPS Act, as well as 120b and 211 of the IPC

Can we pursue the quashing of the FIR, which includes sections 8(c) in conjunction with 20(b)(ii)(B) of the NDPS Act, as well as 120b and 211 of the IPC? The police have inaccurately stated the date of custody, and the incident actually occurred on a different date. We have grounds to challenge this discrepancy. How can we demonstrate in court that we were in unofficial custody from 19.02.2024 ...

Property Case

My husband bought a plot in Hyderabad in 2016. The plot was not registered as the dealer said that the plot has been sold off to some other party. So there was a MoU agreement which states that certain amount in the name of goodwill be given to us. The plot was for around Rs. 4 Lakhs something and the amount which was to be given to us was around Rs. 9 Lakh. This 9 Lakh cheque was issued on 31 ...

Harassment to repay

I'm working as a human resource consultant. My job involves placing the students or unemployed in firms and we do charge certain amount as service charge. I have placed 3 people who were references of one of my friends and charged them. They worked in the company for more than 6 months and started claiming that we didn't like the organization way of functioning and resigned. From past 3 months ...

Can a company force me to do a buy out if it is not mentioned in the offer letter?

I have resigned. As per offer letter, I have to serve notice 90 day notice period, but I am planning to only do 30 days notice. Company is telling me I have to do work for 45 days without salary and this will be considered as buyout. When I asked employer why this is not mentioned in offer letter, he said they usually don't include this in the offer letter. Is there anything else that I should ...

How can I protect my share of Agricultural Land from being transferred to my daughter-in-law and her son (my grand son) ?

I along with my only son, after the death of my husband, filed a suit for allotment of my/our share in the Agricultural land, against my in-laws family members. The Court passed orders in our favour that the land is to be divided in five parts as my father-in-law had three sons (two surviving and one (my husband) not alive) and two daughters (both married). My father-in-law and my mother-in-law...

My employer is releasing me just because their client project is finished now

I am an HR professional. In Nov month I gave an online interview for gurugram location with Hydrabad based IT company and after clearing the interview they placed me with a very big group of company in digital IT team to work for HR projects. This group compnay is their client. So basically I got placement on the roll of Hydrabad based IT company but have to work on their client location in gur...

My account has been frozen by SI in Kolaghat, WB and I live in Hyderabad.

It all started when the UPI apps on my phone told me that my HDFC bank account was blocked, and I mailed the HDFC bank support about it; I was told it was because SI, Kolaghat police station had sent a notice to block my account. Later, mailing SI for clarification regarding the block; he called me on 30/03/2024 to talk and told me about a 160CrPC notice against me, which I later uncovered i...

Husband not taking care of me and my child

My in laws used to say wrong even i do small things and they do not allow me to go for walk in evening and does not allow me to stand outside. They used to cook in home occasionally and does not allow me to cook and saying your cooking is not good most of the time order food from shop. After delivered a girl child i told them i cook for myself and started cooking for me but after that my fathe...

After filing the Sec. 12 (d) of HMA against wife , can husband file 420 IPC agaisnt wife

Good Morning sir , Gist of the case: In this case, on behalf of my client (the husband), I filed a Section 12 (d) of the Hindu Marriage Act (HMA) against his wife. They got married in March. After one month, she was confirmed as pregnant (proof of the doctor’s report was also filed in court along with WhatsApp chat records with her boyfriend). Upon inquiry, it was found that she had a relatio...

Despite many opportunities after ex parte order defendant failed to file written statement

In a suit for partition filed on 20/06/2001 exparte ordered on 25/02/2003 as defendants didn't file written statement. In 2005 IA is filed for set aside exparte which was allowed on condition to pay costs on 16/03/2005. On failing to file written statement it was dismissed. Trail has started and again restoration petition filed by defendant which was dismissed on merits. In a judgement for an I...

Neighbour objecting for windows

Hi I live in gram panchayat in MP. This is a residential colony but i am not sure how the neighbouring school was approved. But my parents put up with it except all this. This school has 2 building of 15*80*4 floor= 4800sq feet . And opposing building 15*80 of 3 (3600) floor. This guy has himself 2 big windows on both building 2 the open side he has which is a big ground. There is a small ...

Wife claim that husband & mother in law took away all her jewelry in her divorce and patrimony case

Hi Madam, My wife has filed for a divorce case and is implicating me and my mother. She has also filed a patrimony case and has claimed that my mother has take all her jewels given during her marriage. She is claiming compensation for her jewels as if we have taken it when indeed we do not have such a practice in our families. Also she has taken my marriage chains and rings and other ornamen...

Fraud telegram channel on cricket dream11

Respected Sir/Madam, I am a student, via some via links got into this telegram channel named "Dream11 Cricket Experts" it has 8.1K members as of today showing. After watching out for few days I applied for their prime membership which stated 1499rs for winning on dream11 mega contests for Rank1 or 2, I thought they must be really some experts and hence after watching their performance I pa...

Cheating by House Contractor

We planned to build a house and for that we made aggrement on a Rs 100 stamp paper with a labour plus material contractor. In Feb 2024 we paid Rs 10 lakhs online as advance to him to start the work. The contractor did only 5% work in the last 3 months and now he is saying he will not continue the project. I asked him to settle the money as per the work done uptil now. He has given me bill of 3....

One director cheated on the second director

In a private limited (service sector) ,2 directors with equal shareholding, one director cheated the other director and shut her access & took over the business. Changed the name of the business & taking business money in his personal account. Both were engaged too & the female director invested more than the male director. The female director was harassed mentally way too much and taking ab...

Gf threatening to false accuse for sexual harrasment

Hi, I have been dating a girl for 1.5 years now in a long distance relationship. I live abroad & she lives in Mumbai. In January we decided to book a hotel & stayed together for 1 night. We did not engage in any sexual activity at all. We spent most of our time outside the room exploring the hotel. While in room we played games like UNO & Ludo. I had also gotten a card game named “love games”...

Issue with DOB in Birth Certificate

I am an expat living in Germany who originally comes from Kerala, India. I'm reaching out regarding an issue with my birth certificate. My date of birth on my birth certificate is different than that on my passport and all other official documents. This discrepancy arose because school officials commonly altered birth dates in the 90s and 2000s to extend service time eligibility for future publ...