Tuesday, August 24, 2010

DIVORCE-Financial Planning management advice for HUSBANDS

DIVORCE-Financial Planning management advice for HUSBANDS - NDTV PROFIT-Lets talk money@23aug10

 

 

No sympathy for habitual rent defaulter: Delhi HC

No sympathy for habitual rent defaulter: Delhi HC

PTI

Mon, Aug 23 05:14 PM

New Delhi, Aug 23 (PTI) No sympathy can be shown to a tenant who is a habitual defaulter in paying rent, the Delhi High court has said and asked a business man to vacate the NDMC premises. "Every licensee or allotee and even an unauthorised occupant is obliged to pay the monthly license fee so long as he is using the premises and no undue sympathy can be shown to those who wilfully and contemptuously commit persistent defaults in payment of periodical rents," Justice Kailash Gambhir said in a judgement recently.

"The petitioner(Kumar) was a habitual defaulter in the payment of rents/damages and consequently no amount of discretion can be exercised by this court under Article 226 of the Constitution of India in favour of the petitioner," Justice Gambhir also said. He dismissed a petition filed by one Vijay Kumar who challenged the New Delhi Municipal Council''s decision in rejecting his application for regularisation of allotment under its 1997 policy and the eviction order passed by the Estate Officer.

The Court, however, granted 15 days'' time to Kumar to vacate the premises-UG-40, Palika Place, R K Ashram Marg and asked the civic agency not to take coercive action against him. The court upheld NDMC''s decision refusing to regularise Kumnar''s shop under the 1997 policy and rejected his argument that the civic agency has adopted a pick-and-chose policy while regularising the allotment of shops.

According to NDMC, Kumar was alloted the shop in 1992 for five years and his application for renewal of his licence in respect of his shop was rejected in 1998 on account of non- payment of rents. The petitioner was in arrears of licence fee/rent to the tune of Rs 1,32,431 as on November 15, 2007, the date on which the Estate Officer had passed an order for eviction of the shop, as per NDMC. Challenging the Estate Officer''s order, Kumar had filed a case before the District Judge who dismissed his petition in July 2009 and upheld the Estate Officer''s decision for eviction.

http://ibnlive.in.com/generalnewsfeed/news/no-sympathy-for-habitual-rent-defaulter-delhi-hc/255198.html

Is India geared up for sexual harassment policies?

Is India geared up for sexual harassment policies?

The recent incidents which had names matching the likes of Penguin’s Canada chief executive David Davidar and Hewlett-Packard’s global CEO Mark Hurd has once again ignited the issue of sexual harassment in the global markets and it is indeed very interesting to note that how much geared up are the Indian companies in the same regards.

While the issue is at very nascent stages as far as India inc. goes but companies like Pepsi, LG, Maruti already have an policy in place to ensure that the company is at its toes for the safety of its employees.

It is to be mentioned here that according to Pavan Bhatia, ED-HR, PepsiCo India, the policy that is being set up by the global cola major, Pepsi is based as per Supreme Court’s guidelines on sexual harassment and there is also a committee for the issue consisting of 12 senior management executives at Pepsi, in case someone lodges a complaint.

In fact, the committee formed by the company appoints at least five members to duly investigate the matter and takes decisions accordingly.

It may be noted here that while Maruti Suzuki claims to have had no instance of sexual harassment in the company for the last 25 years, but the company has still formulated a robust Sexual Harassment Policy which will be announced to the company employees in the coming days.

 

http://www.topnews.in/india-geared-sexual-harassment-policies-2270599

Live-in Conundrum - Watch Tower: Walk-in and walk-out!

Live-in Conundrum - Watch Tower: Walk-in and walk-out!

India is a country, which is slowly, opening its doors for western ideas and lifestyles and one of the most crucial episodes amongst it, is the concept of live in relationship.


The Supreme Court also opined that a man and woman living together without marriage cannot be construed as an offence.
"When two adult people want to live together what is the offence. Does it amount to an offence? Living together is not an offence. It cannot be an offence," a three judge bench of Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan, Deepak Verma and B S Chauhan observed.The court said even Lord Krishna and Radha lived together according to mythology without marriage.


The apex court said there was no law which prohibits live-in relationship or pre-marital sex.Due to marital disputes counter cases are filed by both the parties and these criminal cases take years to decide. Large number of cases, complaints filed under the anti-dowry law are either false or exaggerated. To avoid these complications, in metro cities more and more people are going for live in relations. In live-in relations there is no legal commitment between the parties, therefore the Supreme Court itself which has given strict directions to all the State governments of Indian States to enact laws to make the Registration of Marriage Compulsory process in a Valid Marriage irrespective of the religion of the parties. Let only the properly registered marriages recognized as legally valid marriage.


The recent decision of Delhi High Court on criminal proceedings initiated by the girlfriend / live-in partner of a London-based solicitor Alok Kumar, based on his refusal to marry her, Hon'ble Delhi High Court has ruled that, partner in a live-in relationship can walk out of it at any point of time without any legal consequence and neither of the partners can complain of infidelity if one ditches the other.
Justice Shiv Narayan Dhingra said, Live-in relationship is a walk-in and walk-out relationship. There are no strings attached in this relationship, nor does this relationship create any legal bond between the parties. People who chose to have live-in relationship cannot complain of infidelity or immorality as live-in relationships are also known to have been between a married man and an unmarried woman or vice versa. Kumar is understood to have been a married man with a family in London while he was in his five-year live-in relationship with his girlfriend. The girlfriend is a divorcee with a child.

While granting relief to Alok Kumar, the Court said that the FIR should be quashed to prevent misuse of the criminal justice system for personal vengeance. The girlfriend had filed the FIR with the police at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi following an altercation between her and Alok Kumar at the Departure Terminal. The FIR listed charges against Alok Kumar for outraging the girlfriends modesty, committing mischief against her and charges of rape. The girlfriend had also taken possession of Alok Kumar's passport by snatching it from him.

The Court stated, a contract of living together is renewed every day by the parties and can be terminated by either of the parties without consent of the other party and one party can walk out at will at any time. This is a clear signal on the legal ramifications for those who want and those who do not want to enter into this kind of relationship of walk-in and walk-out.

But the Supreme Court got an opportunity towards the lively debate on legitimacy of the ˜live in relationship as well as legitimacy of kids given birth to out of this kind of relationship, the Top court has decided the fact that such children are not necessarily unlawful. The Supreme Court has additionally held that such kids possess a right to inherit the properties left behind by one of the partners in this kind of relationship.

If a man as well as a lady are living under the same roof and living together for quite a few years, there will be a presumption under Section 114 of the Evidence Act that they live as husband and wife and the children born to them will not be illegitimate, said a bench of Justices P Sathasivam and BS Chauhan. The bench said the law presumes in favour of marriage and against concubine.


Despite the judgement of the court on case to case basis it is high time, Government comes out with a legislation that brings trans perency in the live in relationship. The story of the individual cases underline the fact that live in relation is not merely a contract between two individual but new foreign element to our existing culture supported by institution of marriage. So this relation is very near informal legitimacy of husband and wife, which has its ramification to the children born out of this relation. Each legislation has its root in Indian culture and social customs, the new legislation should evaluate that aspect while incorporating new changes of the dynamic society. At this juncture this matter is open to debate and needs immediate attention of Government.

Nitin Saxena

http://www.centralchronicle.com/viewnews.asp?articleID=45371