911 houses damaged due to natural calamities in Dakshina Kannada since April: DDMA
Mangaluru: A total of 911 houses in Dakshina Kannada district have suffered damage due to natural calamities over the past two and a half months, according to data from the Dist]rict Disaster Management Authority (DDMA).
Citing figures reported by The Hindu, the DDMA stated that between April 1 and June 18, 829 houses were partially damaged, while 82 homes were completely destroyed. Of these, 126 homes, including two fully damaged, were affected in the month of June alone. In April and May combined, 705 houses were partially damaged and 80 houses fully damaged.
In addition to residential losses, agricultural and horticultural lands have also suffered. Horticultural crops spread across 5.384 hectares and agricultural crops over 2.43 hectares were reported damaged due to rains during the period.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) noted that the southwest monsoon arrived early this year, entering Kerala on May 24 — about a week ahead of its typical onset — and subsequently advancing over coastal Karnataka and parts of interior south Karnataka.
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Allahabad HC sets aside maintenance order in favour of earning wife, says she didn't tell truth
Prayagraj (PTI): The Allahabad High Court has set aside a lower court order mandating a man to pay maintenance to his estranged wife, observing that she earns her living and did not reveal the true salary in her affidavit.
Justice Madan Pal Singh also allowed a criminal revision petition filed by the man, Ankit Saha.
"A perusal of the impugned judgment indicates that in the affidavit filed before the trial court, the opposite party herself admitted that she is a post-graduate and a web designer by qualification. She is working as a senior sales coordinator in a company and getting a salary of Rs 34,000 per month," the court said in the December 3 order.
"But in her cross-examination, she has admitted that she was earning Rs 36,000 per month. Such an amount for a wife who has no other liability cannot be said to be meagre; whereas the man has the responsibility of maintaining his aged parents and other social obligations," it observed.
The high court observed that the woman was not entitled to get any maintenance from her husband "as she is an earning lady and able to maintain herself".
The man's counsel argued in court that the estranged wife did not reveal the whole truth in the affidavit.
"She claimed herself to be an illiterate and unemployed woman. When the document filed by the man was shown to her before the trial court, she admitted her income during cross-examination. Thus, it is clear that she did not come before the trial court with clean hands," the counsel submitted.
The court, in its order, said, "Cases of those litigants who have no regard for the truth and those who indulge in suppressing material facts need to be thrown out of the court."
It impugned the lower court's February 17 judgment and order, passed by the principal judge of a family court in Gautam Buddh Nagar and allowed the criminal revision petition filed by the man.
