Illegitimate Child

The Supreme Court on Friday sought to know which law gives legitimacy to children born outside a formal marriage, be it void or voidable.

The police on Friday night arrested a 35-year-old man, who killed his second wife along with his two-year-old child, because he suspected her of having an illicit affair. After committing the murders, the accused had approached the police to file a missing complaint. However, the crime only came to light when the police recovered the wife's body on...

There was an opposite and equally impolitic reaction from Mayawati's party to Dayashankar Singh's malevolent remark against her. In Chandigarh, a leader from Mayawati's party offered 50 lakhs "in return for Mr Singh's tongue"; hours later, Mr Singh's misogyny was attributed to "faulty DNA as an illegitimate child" by Usha Chaudhary, a lawmaker in ...

The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has ruled that a young Muslim girl cannot be branded an "illegitimate" child because her father had married two sisters, one after the other, despite a specific prohibition under the Muslim Personal Law, which permitted marrying another woman only after 'talaq'.

The Supreme Court on Friday sought to know which law gives legitimacy to children born outside a formal marriage, be it void or voidable.

The police on Friday night arrested a 35-year-old man, who killed his second wife along with his two-year-old child, because he suspected her of having an illicit affair. After committing the murders, the accused had approached the police to file a missing complaint. However, the crime only came to light when the police recovered the wife's body on...

There was an opposite and equally impolitic reaction from Mayawati's party to Dayashankar Singh's malevolent remark against her. In Chandigarh, a leader from Mayawati's party offered 50 lakhs "in return for Mr Singh's tongue"; hours later, Mr Singh's misogyny was attributed to "faulty DNA as an illegitimate child" by Usha Chaudhary, a lawmaker in ...

The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has ruled that a young Muslim girl cannot be branded an "illegitimate" child because her father had married two sisters, one after the other, despite a specific prohibition under the Muslim Personal Law, which permitted marrying another woman only after 'talaq'.