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In a country where people are forced to kill themselves for a small amount of 500 rs, 1000 rs, 5000 rs or 10,000 rs high profile and high value corruption cases should be punishable by death, only then can we insure that justice was served to souls of people who lost their lifes because of loans/udhari. We have all heard cases of farmers, small vendors and salaried employees killing themselves for the reason of not being able to manage finances because of perpetual loans/ informal lending for small amounts. That is happening in the same country with many high profile scams worth 100s and 1000s of crore happening every other day. It is really disheartening and humiliating thing happening in the country, and justice must be served for same.

Other option would be to have high/ proportionate compensation for the scams as compared to other penalties. In case bus ticket the ticket is 15 rs vs penalty 300 rs so 20x compensation. Driving license 1000 rs license fees vs penalty 5000 rs so 5x compensation. PUC certificate 200rs vs penalty 10000 rs so 50x compensation. Drunk driving taking cab 500 rs vs 10000 rs penalty so 20x compensation. Why are such standards not staunchly followed in case of high profile/ high value corruption cases.

I am looking for a lawyer with proven experience in Consumer Commission litigation against automobile manufacturers/dealerships, preferably someone who has handled cases against MG, Tata, Hyundai, Mahindra, Kia, etc.

Brief facts:

* Purchased a new MG Windsor EV Pro in November 2025.

* Factory-fitted dashcam supplied was defective from Day 1 despite repeated complaints.

* Vehicle suffered multiple scratches, dents and interior damage while at the authorised service centre.

* Workshop chemicals also damaged the interior plastic trims.

* Repeated assurances were given for months but issues remained unresolved.

* RC was significantly delayed, and I am pursuing compensation for the financial loss I suffered as a result.

* Multiple emails, photographs, videos, service records and documentary evidence are available.

* Seeking compensation for deficiency in service, vehicle damage, defective product, financial loss, mental harassment and litigation costs.

I am not looking for someone who merely sends a legal notice. I need an advocate who regularly appears before the Consumer Commission and is comfortable handling automobile consumer disputes from start to finish.

If anyone has personal experience or can recommend a competent lawyer in Noida, Delhi or Ghaziabad, please share details or DM me.

Thank you.

Hello All,

I have received a notice from Cyber Crime Delhi regarding a disputed LIC transaction. I used to pay my LIC premium amount to a person on Telegram, and he would offer me a 5% or 10% discount.

I had been paying him for the past year, and my policy requires quarterly payments. This Telegram individual paid someone else and shared my policy details. That person then hacked someone's mobile and paid my policy amount. Consequently, I received the notice. I consulted a lawyer, who responded to it and sent all the required documents and a petition to the cyber police station. They agreed that I am also a victim and requested the details of the person to whom I paid the amount. My lawyer sent another petition with the required details.

Now I have received second notice via registered post and asking me to appear in person again. However, Delhi is far for me, and we requested video conferencing, but they are not accepting it and are asking me to come to Delhi. Initially, they said I was also a victim, and now they have sent two notices asking me to appear.

I have no connection to the person involved in the crime; I transferred my money via credit card to the Telegram person. Could you please help me with what I should do now or offer any suggestions? My policy amount is 15840 and I paid 14572 after discount.

Please help me out. Thanks in advance.

Guys I'm really scared right now and don't know what to do.

I use a p2p site sometimes to earn a little extra money, nothing big, no scheme or "double your money" stuff, just regular p2p trading.

This week I went to my SBI branch, as I had got a sms stating my account is frozen, and they told me my account is frozen because of a cybercrime complaint.

I don't understand any of this. I haven't knowingly done anything wrong, I was just using the p2p site normally.

Now I'm panicking because:

I don't know why exactly it got frozen or which complaint/FIR it's linked to

I don't know how long it will stay frozen or what the timeline usually looks like

I don't know if I'll get a legal notice or if police will contact me directly

I don't know if I need a lawyer or what the first step even is

Just to be clear, I'm not asking for any workaround or way to bypass this, I genuinely want to know the correct legal process to sort this out. If anyone has actually been through this same situation with SBI or any bank, please tell me what steps you took and how it eventually got resolved. Any real guidance would help a lot right now.

Very scared😭

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I 21 M, so my dad is a central railway employee and he went through a CABG(BYPASS SURGERY) a month ago and he voluntarily retired and got medically unfit by the Railway Doctors team and my dad wanted me to take the job at his place in the Railways so he started all that process and now as the time is getting closer and he's about to get his retirement funds (Gratuity,PF, Pension,Leave encashment) his mother sent him a legal notice ive pasted their exact notice here "As per the information and authority given by my client, the Notice Giver, I, Advocate xyz, residing at xyz, through this notice, inform the Notice Receiver that,

The Notice Giver, my client, is your mother. The husband of our client and the father of the notice receiver, the deceased railway employee xyz(grandfather), passed away while in railway service. After the death of the deceased railway employee xyz(grandfather), you, the notice receiver, were given the opportunity to serve in the railway on compassionate grounds in place of your father. You were appointed to the railway job. At the time of joining the railway service, the railway administration had taken a written undertaking from you, and you had given an assurance to the railway administration on stamp paper, promising that out of the salary earned from the railway job given to you on compassionate grounds in place of your father, you would spend money towards the maintenance, upbringing, medical treatment, education, and marriage of our client—who is your mother—your brother, and your unmarried sister.

However, even after getting the railway service on compassionate grounds, you have never spent any money from your railway service salary for any work such as the maintenance, upbringing, medical treatment, education, and marriage of our client—your mother, brother, and unmarried sister—contrary to your assurance and promise.

The railway service you received on compassionate grounds in place of your father after his death was, and is, for the maintenance and upbringing of the entire family. Our client and other family members had, and still have, legal rights over the salary money of your compassionate railway service.

It was your legally binding responsibility and obligation to spend money from your salary for the notice giver, our client, and other members of the family. However, you, out of selfishness, have spent the salary money from your compassionate railway service only on yourself and your wife.

Now, as you have become medically unfit during your railway service, you have been retired from the railway service. In your place, your son is going to get the opportunity to serve in the railway on compassionate grounds. Also, you are going to receive substantial benefits from the railway service and retirement, such as Provident Fund (PF), Gratuity, Insurance, Salary, Pension, etc. The notice giver, our client meaning your mother, brother, and sister, all have a legal and 50% \[fifty percent\] half share in the retirement benefit money you will receive from the railway. Accordingly, you must give our clients half the money of the family.

Also, you had given an assurance to build a house for your brother xyz and to bear his marriage expenses. Accordingly, a house should be built for him and his marriage should be solemnized. Arrangements of money should be made for the future maintenance of your unmarried sister xyz.

Take note that if you, the notice receiver, do not act according to this notice, and if you do not fulfill the demands of this notice, our client will take legal guidance as required and will initiate legal proceedings against you in court, which will be of both civil and criminal nature".

My dad did everything to them he could, he has 3 siblings two sisters and one brother one of my aunt is mentally unstable and the other ones who's fine my dad even get her married infact for TWICE and the uncle they're taking about is almost 48 and he's unemployed and claims himself to be mental that I'm not mentally stable (thinks of himself as devdas) and my evil grandmother she gets the pension of my grandfather every single month. If my dad didn't do anything then where were the for all the 25-30 years? They should've done this way before.

It's been only around 40-45 days since my dads surgery they never ever called him and asked about how'd it go how's he feeling he had his coronary angioplasty too 7-8 months back at that time too none of them even called us and came to see him all they need is money from him. My mom and dad are stressing about it a lot I NEED HELP PLEASE SOMEONE WHO COULD HELP ME PLEASE HELP ME.

I'm a 28F living in Bangalore in a flat owned by my mother. I've been staying here for the last four years without paying rent, although I do pay the maintenance charges and have spent my own money on the interiors.

Recently, my mother sent me a legal notice asking me to vacate the flat. I intend to leave, but I wanted to know whether she can legally do this even though I've invested money in the property.

She has also sent a legal notice to my boyfriend demanding rent for the two years he stayed here, claiming he owes around 15 lakh. There was never any rent agreement. I believe this is being done to harass us and pressure me into ending my relationship, as my parents strongly oppose my boyfriend and don't want me to marry him.

On top of this, my parents want me to sign a declaration stating that if I marry my boyfriend against their wishes then

\- They will not be responsible for me in any way.

\- If anything happens to me in the future, they will have no liability.

\- If my boyfriend or his family ever demand money for any rituals or expenses, my parents will have no obligation to pay anything.

\- They will disown me if I choose to marry him against their wishes.

I feel this declaration is being used purely as a means of pressuring me into breaking up with my boyfriend.

Does the money I spent on interiors give me any legal rights or claim? And Can my mother legally recover two years' rent from my boyfriend when there was never any rent agreement?

I'm planning to consult a lawyer, but I'd appreciate some general legal guidance before I do.

Just wanted to share a classic example of trial court arbitrariness and why you always, always need to secure documentary evidence of everything that happens in the courtroom.

The Setup:

In a standard IPC 406 matter, the Magistrate directly issued a Non-Bailable Warrant (NBW) against my client. No summons, no bailable warrant first—just straight to NBW, completely ignoring the Supreme Court guidelines (like Inder Mohan Goswami).

The Hearing:

We immediately moved a recall application. My client was physically present with me in court. After arguments, the judge got incredibly hostile and gave me an ultimatum: "Either 'Not Press' this application right now, or your client is going straight to jail."

Knowing the mood of the court, I strategically decided to not press the application to save my client from immediate custody. However, before stepping back, I made absolutely sure my client signed the daily order sheet to leave an undeniable, on-record proof of his physical presence in the court that day.

The Absurd Order:

Later, I checked the order sheet. The judge, clearly annoyed, went ahead and issued a proclamation under Section 82 CrPC (now Sec 84 BNSS) against my client.
The judge literally wrote on the order sheet: "The recall application was not pressed by the accused. NBW is pending. Let the accused be summoned through Sec 82."

The Catch:

Right next to that very paragraph declaring him an absconder who is evading the court's reach... is my client's physical signature and the date!
How can a court have "reason to believe" an accused is absconding or concealing himself when he is literally standing in front of the dais, moving applications, and signing the judge's own order sheet? The judge essentially used Section 82 as a punitive tool to punish us for the recall application, rather than its actual statutory purpose.

I've noticed that maintenance is one of the most misunderstood areas of Indian family law. Here are a few misconceptions that come up frequently:

Myth 1: Maintenance is only available after divorce.
Not necessarily. Depending on the applicable law and the facts of the case, maintenance may also be claimed while spouses are living separately.

Myth 2: Only wives can claim maintenance.
The law provides protection in different situations for spouses, children, and even dependent parents, subject to the relevant legal provisions.

Myth 3: Maintenance is a fixed percentage of income.
There isn't a universal formula. Courts typically consider factors like income, financial responsibilities, living expenses, the standard of living during the marriage, and the specific circumstances of each case.

Every case is unique, which is why advice based solely on social media or hearsay can sometimes be misleading.

I'm part of a legal team that works on family law matters, so I've spent time explaining these issues to clients. If anyone has general questions about maintenance laws in India, I'm happy to answer them within the limits of Reddit and without giving case specific legal advice.

If someone wants a more detailed explanation, I've also written a longer article covering the topic and can share it in the comments if the moderators allow or if anyone requests it.

What maintenance related myths have you come across?

Hi everyone,

I really need some urgent legal advice. I am extremely stressed and honestly quite terrified right now.

The Background:
A month ago, I noticed a scam at a local petrol pump near me—Modern Service Station HP (opposite Dolphin Public School, Modinagar, Ghaziabad). I wanted to get fuel for Rs 200 and asked them to preset it. They refused to use the preset lock on the machine and started fueling manually.

Crucially, they did not reset the meter to zero. They started fueling directly from Rs 50 (leftover from a previous transaction). When I realized they didn't clear the meter and called them out for shortchanging me, the staff became very aggressive and misbehaved with me.

I did not let it go. I filed official complaints on PGPortal, UP Jansunwai, and HPCL. I have all the official PDFs and trackable complaint receipts, all dated from a month ago.

What Happened Today:
Today, I received a call from someone identifying himself as SI Rahul Kumar from the Modipon Chowki (under Modinagar Police Station).

He told me that the petrol pump manager, Narendra, has gone to the police alleging that I am demanding a bribe/extortion money to stop complaining and withdraw my cases.

This is a complete lie. I have never met this manager in private, never spoken to them, and never asked for a single rupee. I only wanted action against their staff for cheating consumers and misbehaving. They are clearly trying to pressure and intimidate me.

I do not know if they have registered a formal FIR/complaint or not. The SI didn't clarify that, but he said they will "send me a letter shortly" and cut the call.

I am extremely scared of what is going to happen next.

My Questions for the Lawyers/Experts here:

1. What does this "sending a letter shortly" mean? Is it a notice to appear? Can they register an FIR or arrest me directly based purely on the pump manager's word without any proof?
2. How should I handle this letter when it arrives? Do I need to hire a local lawyer to draft a formal reply to it?
3. Should I go to the chowki? Should I refuse to go without a written notice, or go with a lawyer/family?
4. Should I file a preemptive complaint/email to the ACP of Modinagar or DCP Rural Ghaziabad explaining this blatant intimidation and harassment of a consumer? Will my prior PGPortal complaints serve as solid proof of my innocence?

I am just a common citizen trying to fight a local fuel scam, and now I am facing a threat of a fake police case. Any guidance on my immediate next steps would mean a lot. Thank you.

We all know signatures are supposed to represent identity and intent. But here’s a dilemma:

- If an official starts with a full signature and later shifts to a shortened version, does the law honor the individual or the consistency of the mark?

- Could a shortened signature ever be challenged as “non-binding” if the same person uses a longer version elsewhere?

- In an age of digital signatures and biometrics, is insisting on a full handwritten signature outdated bureaucracy—or essential authenticity?

I'm curious how different legal systems, traditions, and even cultural practices view this. Is the pattern enough, or is the full form sacred?

What do you think—does the law recognize the person, or the pattern?

Case Summary
I invested a total of ₹10 lakh with my business partner.

₹5 lakh was paid through bank transaction.
₹5 lakh was paid in cash.
We have a written bond/agreement that acknowledges the investment and contains a specific repayment deadline.
My partner has not returned the money despite the deadline having passed.
He gave me signed cheques as security/guarantee, but when I presented a cheque for ₹5 lakh, it was dishonoured due to “Funds Insufficient.”
I have the following evidence:

Written bond/agreement.
Bank transaction history.
WhatsApp/text messages.
Audio recordings.
Cheque and bank return memo showing “Funds Insufficient.”
The business was a partnership, but my partner allegedly:

Made purchase and sale decisions without informing or obtaining my consent.
Sold the business stock/assets that were purchased using partnership funds.
Did not inform me about the sales or account for the proceeds.
Refused to return my investment despite repeated requests.
My primary objective is to recover the full ₹10 lakh as quickly as possible.
I am considering both criminal and civil remedies and want advice on the most effective legally sustainable strategy to maximize the chances of recovering the entire amount.

My dad had applied for a 2 lakh rupees loan from SBI for building our house around 2003-04

The loan was not getting approved on a single applicant hence dad had to ask my Uncle to join in and sign the docs.

After the loan was approved and disbursed, my dad built the house slowly. Mind you my uncle didn't have a penny of his into his house. Because this was NOT supposed to be his house in the first place.

Now fast forward 20 years back, that house is worth 55-60 lacs and the Unc wants his 50% share.

What is the best way to approach this without causing any hassle and without giving up 50% of what my father built with his blood and sweat.

Throwaway for privacy. Some details have been generalized.

I'm looking for legal guidance from people familiar with Indian matrimonial law. This isn't about "winning" against the other side. I genuinely want to understand the safest legal route to end a marriage that has completely broken down, while avoiding unnecessary litigation.

I'm an NRI and had an arranged marriage in Punjab in 2022. Before the marriage, in the presence of both families and the mediator, I clearly disclosed that I had been previously married, was legally divorced, and had a son from that marriage. Multiple family members from both sides were present during this discussion. The marriage was finalized shortly afterwards as a simple ceremony. My family specifically requested that no unnecessary money be spent. We did not demand or accept any dowry, and all jewellery and clothing gifted by her parents remained with her.

After the marriage I returned abroad for work. I applied twice for a visa so my wife could join me, but both applications were refused. During this period I regularly sent money and bought things she needed (including through Amazon and Myntra) whenever I could. We barely lived together during the marriage, only a few days immediately after the wedding, and then two later visits of roughly three weeks each. Since the marriage she has lived at her own parents' home throughout; we only cohabited during my visits to India. My family lives abroad, and my parent's house is locked and in a remote area. It has never functioned as our regular matrimonial home.

Over time the relationship deteriorated, and the marriage has now completely broken down.

• While preparing her first visa applications, I discovered that the work experience mentioned in the biodata provided before marriage did not match the information later given in the visa application, where no previous work experience was declared. She acknowledged she had no prior work experience and that it had been made up for the matrimonial profile.
• During one of my visits to India, I came across conversations (which I have preserved) between my wife and her relatives that caused me to lose trust in the marriage. They contained disrespectful comments about my family, including my late parent, and discussions that, in my view, suggested intentions very different from what had been represented before the marriage.
• The same conversations (preserved) showed she had used money I sent her to pay for her family's shopping and expenses, while telling me it was her own shopping. The chats contradict what she claimed to me.

Current situation:

a) My wife is repeatedly harassing me and my family by phone and messages.

b) She is now demanding to occupy the house that is solely in my surviving parent's name, and has sent messages threatening to break the locks and enter the property. Those chats are preserved.

c) She has also made statements threatening to harm herself at our family home because she is married into our family. Those communications are preserved.

d) Her family has visited our family home and created public scenes in the neighborhood.

e) Her brother has called and threatened my family's safety if we travel to India. For this reason, we have reason to be concerned that false allegations could be made against us if we go.

We tried to resolve the matter through the panchayat, but her side refused to participate in a joint discussion and stated they would only speak once my family is physically present in India. As a result, no joint panchayat proceedings could be recorded. We're concerned this dispute may escalate into matrimonial litigation.

My questions:

1. What is generally considered the cleanest legal route for an NRI husband in my situation? Should I initiate divorce proceedings first (if appropriate on the available grounds), or is there a better approach?
2. My biggest concern is my surviving parent's house.
   • The property is solely in my parent's name; I am not the owner.
   • I was also formally disowned several years earlier, for reasons unrelated to this marriage.
   • My wife lived in that house only briefly.
   • How do courts generally approach residence / "shared household" claims under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act in circumstances like these?
3. If false allegations are later made, how useful can contemporaneous evidence be in defending the case. For example: Messages, bank transfers, visa applications and refusal letters, travel records, and witnesses who attended the pre-marriage discussions?
4. Can the preserved conversations, and the discrepancy between the pre-marriage biodata and the later visa application, become relevant evidence if allegations are made against me?
5. If a mutual-consent divorce becomes possible, is a registered settlement covering maintenance and all future claims generally the most practical way to bring finality? I'm open to a fair settlement if it brings a clean end.
6. Would it generally be better to initiate legal proceedings now, or to wait and respond if the other side files first?
7. Are there any practical preventive steps I should take now: document preservation, legal notices, property-related precautions — before litigation begins?

I'm not looking for ways to harass anyone. I simply want to understand the most legally sound way to resolve a marriage that has unfortunately failed, while protecting my elderly parent's property and my family's safety, and avoiding years of avoidable litigation. I'd really appreciate advice from lawyers or anyone who has been through something similar.

Guys guess what I have heard that a Male Partner (35) having extra marital affair with a female associate (25) since the time she was assessment intern and they both were together in tier 3 firm few years ago but things got so worse that they were fired for miss appropriation of funds of the office and moonlighting. Do you have any idea who could be this it’s gonna be interesting to spill some tea here!!!

I am from Telangana and in Student Affidavit it asks me to print it in a non judicial stamp of 200rs but the maximum telangana offers is 100rs what to do
Please guide