Legal questions

Indian Citizenship for my wife

Dear Sirs Good Day! I am a NRI married to my Pakistani wife in July 2008. My wife along with me and our children have visited India once in a year consecutively for the last seven years. Can I apply for her Indian Citizenship as per the Citizenship Rules 2009 (mentioned below): 5. Application for registration under clause (c) of sub-section (1) of section 5.- (1) An application from ...

Job harassment.

Dear Sir, My name is Debadyuti Das living in New Delhi for the past 8 yrs. I am working with Market Research Company (The Nielsen India Pvt. Ltd.) and I have been working as freelancer since 8 yrs. I have issued payments via Cheques.Our in-charge has wrongfully misused my credibility regarding my loyalty in work for his personal benefit. Our Manager is also in aligned with him. He had told t...

Fraud case in govt scheme

Hello, We have land in Sangli (maharashtra) District and my parents looks after it. I am an engineer and works for MNC in Dubai. In 2012 one of my friend approached me for government scheme to develop the land and then with his link/reference in Panchayat he approved the scheme for us. The scheme was NARGA (gramin rojgar yojana). Under this scheme water ponds needs to build in line with ...

Dissolving of 13(1A) with existing SPA & opening 13B with new SPA

Hi All, Thanks so much for this platform for giving us a chance to ask some questions which are unanswered or to confirm the answers given by our attorney or their group. Here is my case in brief: This case has lot of twists and turns. So just giving the case background below: Background: We are married for 8 years. It was love marriage. Both families accepted later. When I marr...

Is US Divorce valid for Indian marriage?

This could be long. I'll try to keep it as short as possible. My daughter-in-law was arrested by police in US for felony as she physically assaulted my son. So a case of Felony was registered against her and the case was in trial stage. Meanwhile my son filed for divorce on grounds of cruelty. My daughter-in-law hired a lawyer for the divorce case who represented her for a few hearings. She ...

Legal Help

Dear Sir, My nephew is an engineering student, living in a hostel in UP. Around one year earlier, one of his classmate borrowed his SBI ATM Card asking that his ATM Card is not working and he has to get some money from his Parents and seek his permission to use his account and card for this case. Few days latter he returned the card. After one year, (in Feb 2015), Police came to my residence i...

Repurchased our own land from goons

My mother Mrs. Laxmi W/O Mr. Vishnu (not the actual names) purchased 3-acres of agricultural land in a village near to our native village in 1988. Then in 1995 an old lady impersonating as Mrs. Laxmi wrote a will in favor of her son (Jeevan) and few months later Mrs. Laxmi was declared dead (btw, with god's grace my mother is still in good health) and the land was transferred to Jeevan. My fath...

Ancestral property

We are living in the property that's power of attorney is still in my Grandfather name. My grandfather & grandmother died without making a will. My father also died. Now my mother & my uncle partitioned the property but power of attorney is still in the name of my grandfather. we also don't have death certificate of my grandfather or grandmother. Now the questions are: Can we make sepa...

How secure is Settlement deed

Dear sir My dad bought a piece of land 15 years ago and built a house on it. Since we moved from that place to another city, we rented it for the last 8 years. My dad is worried about the possibility that some fraudster may illegally forge and create fake documents and sell our house, without our knowledge He is not paranoid; his cousin recently had a very unfortunate experience where his l...

Home Loan defaulter

Hi, Myself and my husband brought a flat. The flat is jointly under our name. For this flat, both of us take Home loan from a nationalized bank in India. After 2 years or so, due to issue in our relationship, both of us left the flat and started living separately. In the mean time, my husband stopped paying part of EMI. The home loan is connected with my own salary A/C on the same bank. Co...

step mother

I m a 20 years old girl Indian girl {born in 1994} now studying in Germany. when i was born my parents got divorced i came in custody of my father and married to another girl.....my step mother{in 1998 i think}. she didn't cooperated with my family and neither me, so she left the house{she stayed with us only for 3-4 months} with father and i was left with my grandparents..that my grandfather m...

Taxes applicable on a One Person Company and Incentives in an SEZ

Hi, I have a few queries pertaining to Corporate Tax laws. I want to start a research based technology startup and I am going with the option of One Person Company that designs electronics software and electric/mechanical instruments and licenses their design to other firms who can take up mass production.. Below are my queries.. 1) Can a OPC have an office in an SEZ and avail the b...

one of the dependent expired in middle of case

Hi, My father was expired in road accident before some 12-13 years. At that time we filed MACT claim and my mother and grand mother were alive. Lower court gave decision as per following (1) FD with A amount (jointly Mother & Grandmother) (2) FD with B amount (on name of Nazir) Insurance company went to high court for FD(2) when FD(1) was given to us, my grand mother was alive. Since my...

L&L and eviction

My parents senior citizens with intentions of staying with dignity and self sufficient invested in flats. It. Was given on L& L through agent for 11months. As per agents advise only motorizations of agreement done. The cheque issued for security deposit bounced. So also the rent for first two months. Only after verbal confrontation did the licensee pay in cash in installments. Last six months n...

FIR u/s 154 crpc after dismissal of crl compliant u/s 200 Crpc

Dear Attorneys, My wife had filed criminal proceedings against us in Noida District Court. Brief facts in chronological manner are as follows : Private criminal complaint u/s 200 crpc filed under certain sections ( IPC 498 A, 406, 506 etc.). After pre-evidence all alleged accused/s were not summoned under certain sections / allegations and complaint against them was dismissed qua those se...

Registration of flat

I purchased a flat in 2007 in Durgapur, West Bengal but it never got registered till date. The builders had some internal issues with the government due to which the flats never got registered. Also, the payment reciepts that were issued in 2007 mention a transfer of ownership clause for the flat. A public bank paid the entire amount in advance for the flat against a loan on my name. However, f...

How can I save my flat?

Hello I am writing on behalf of my mother who is a house wife. In the year of 1986, my mother and her brother in law jointly paid for a flat in Mumbai costing Rs. 4,05,000 (at that stage). My mom paid 40% of that amount in CASH and her brother in law paid the rest by CHEQUE. My mom has NO proof of payment of the flat. The flat is in the name of her brother in law's company which does not exis...

498a wife now wants to withdraw the case and come back to me?

I live in delhi and my wife is from UP. My wife stayed only for 7 days with me after marriage and went back to her house. Since then, she never came back to me and after 1 year of marriage she filed a false 498a and domestic violence charges against me and my parents. Her stay with me was quite good but as soon as she went to her parent's house she started abusing me, demanded more jewelry from...

Criminal Case against NRI

My friend is a permanent resident in the USA and is currently employed in the USA. He legally had right to a family property as part of a will written by the family head. The family head has passed away and he has been having issues with his siblings regarding the partition of family property. They are not willing to agree to the will. He is planning to have the will executed through court and ...

Asking high compensation.

My wife has filed for divorce on june,2013 for the first time with support of an outside agreement made in front of an advocates agreeing that she has to be paid a maintence amount and my babygirl of 3ys now ,shall be taken care by me. later she violated the agreement and asked for more money 27lks and tok the baby from me and withdrawn the divorce case . and filed too many other cases on me an...