‘Misogynistic’: MP High Court flags appellate judge’s view on woman’s role in litigation

Criticising the appellate court’s remarks about a woman handling family litigation, the Madhya Pradesh High Court said its observations were based on ‘surmises and assumptions’.The Madhya Pradesh High Court has criticised as “gender-biased” and “misogynistic”, an appellate court’s observation that elderly male members of a family could not have been dependent on a younger female member to take necessary steps in family litigation.