Welcome to Delhi Law Chambers, Melbourne
Delhi Law Chambers (DLC) Melbourne is an Australian Law firm exclusively practising Indian Law operating from Melbourne Victoria. We deal with all types of legal/para legal issues you may have in India. In many cases you may not even be required to travel to India. Along with Melbourne, we have offices in Chandigarh and Delhi. As NRI or Australian of Indian descent, your issue may be in any part of India, we can arrange to have you covered, giving you all the answers locally.
Of late many NRIs have been caught up in the Anti-Dowry cases – when they went back to India looking for suitable partners for their sons and daughters. Sadly some of those pursuits by NRI parents, of finding Indian partners for their children ended up in courts. Surfacing of allegations of abuse asking for dowry were quite regular occurrence. A nightmare for parents and their Aussie (overseas) born children followed, exacerbating their suffering having to worry about Indian courts’s rulings every now and then. In many cases things to years to settle and wounds took decades to heal.
With DLC operating from Melbourne dealing with all your legal / para legal problems in India right from here, the pain and suffering and the clouding of information will be eased from day one. Should you have any such issues, contact DLC immediately.
You may just need a document drafted – like Power of Attorney or Pre-Nuptial Agreement or require representation in a Dowry Demand Allegation matter, it can all be done from here. Or it may be a simple Property Investment effort gone wrong and you do not know where to start, we can definitely help you.
Definition of Dowry
Indian Law
Dowry is any property or valuable security given or agreed to be given either directly or indirectly-
(a) by one party to a marriage to the other party to the marriage; or
(b) by the parents of either party to a marriage or by any other person, to either party to the marriage or to any other person;
at or before or any time after the marriage in connection with the marriage of said parties.
Dowry Prohibition
Law India
Asking for or taking dowry
in India
Anyone giving, taking or abetting the act of giving or taking of dowry, he shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than five years, and with the fine which shall not be less than fifteen thousand rupees or the amount of the value of such dowry, whichever is more.
The courts can award less than six months' imprisonment to anyone convicted for asking for or taking dowry provided there exist special circumstances and the court makes a note of such special circumstance.
Dowry Prohibition
Law India
Why Section 498A of the IPC
Anti-Dowry Law
The law in India had to be amended to suitably and effectively deal with not only with cases of Dowry Death but also cruelty to married woman by their in laws. Legal experts felt that willful conduct of the husband or any other relative of the husband as is likely to drive the woman to commit suicide or cause grave physical or mental injury to her, and harassment of woman by her husband or by any relative of her husband with a view to coercing her or any of her relatives to meet any unlawful demand for property should be punishable as cruelty, ...the offence as cognizable...
Statement of Objects
and Reasons - 1983
Case Studies
NRIs couples' children custody fights...
An NRI couple - having migrated to Australia, started their life in Australia as normal and had two children. Some six to eight years into their married life, difference developed between the two of them. Soon mistrust crept in. In desperation to get hold of life, the husband felt it would be better for him to go back to India and settle there. He decided to move, take children with him without telling the wife. For that he required passports for his children and then visas for India. In his desperation to find solace away from the wife, he forged her signatures not once but twice to take his children to India... From love - the very foundation of their marriage and new life in Australia to the total lack of trust in marriage turned an ordinary man into...
NRI Husband stuck between US & Indian Courts
Ignored Indian court orders, punished by Supreme Court Vikas Mittal (not real name) approached the Supreme Court of India after the High Court decided against him in an application for maintenance by the wife. The High Court had given him many chances to appear and explain his circumstances but he chose to seek divorce in the US where he was living. The High Court ordered in favour of the wife and when authorities in India proceeded to action the order he realized the gravity of situation in India and hollowness of his attempt to succeed in the US court. The Supreme Court showing no sympathy for him decided against him, particularly for his conduct...
Cheated by your own in India?
Seeking remedial action under 498A…?
Did you got to India to find your soulmate you wanted to spend your life with?
Did your parents, family friends or someone else suggested a match and you thought you had found your Mr or Miss RIGHT and it was time to now settle down in life and make home for yourself and you did everything right but … you were kept in the dark and things have gone terribly wrong… Sounds familiar?
Contact DLC today and we will take care of everything for you, from right here in Melbourne Australia.
More Problems
Stuck investments in India?
Can’t get your money back?
If you are one of those unlucky Indian Australians who wanted to keep connected with India your motherland but came unstuck because of some unscrupulous operators in India who allured you to invest with a promise of rosy returns and above board reporting but now the system seems to be working in other ways…
Then wait no more contact DLC today.
We will bring things back on track for you for fraction of a cost and save you millions of hours of heartache and botheration…
Know a proclaimed offender?
Living in fear in Australia?
Did you know India can seek your custody if you were involved in a crime there. And you are living in Australia thinking how, if at all you could go to India to meet your family and friends
If you may or may not know that you have been declared Proclaimed Offender in India and now living in fear in Australia. Do not worry. Get in touch with DLC today.
You do not have to fear being arrested on arrival at airport in India. We will try and sort it out from here in Melbourne Australia for you…!
No need to fly to India... unnecessarily!
We will do it for you through our Melbourne office
– Virtually, – Digitally & even Physically
