Tagged “matrimonial-disputes”

Ishwar Chand Sharma v. State of UP: parrot-like POCSO testimony quashed and advocates' ethical duty

On 29 May 2026, a two-judge bench quashed POCSO and rape proceedings against an estranged husband's family on findings of tutored 'parrot-like' testimony, and articulated for the first time at Supreme Court level an explicit ethical duty on advocates not to assist vexatious matrimonial-dispute prosecutions.