Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 13(1)(ia), (ib) -- Divorce - Cruelty and desertion - Mere accusation of relationship with some other person itself is a mental cruelty and perhaps is the reasonable cause for wife to live apart...........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 13(1)(iii) -- Divorce - Mental disorder of wife - Neither any oral evidence nor any document of sickness of wife has been produced - Rather, family Court found that after marriage, husband got government job and since wife was an illiterate and uneducated woman, he was not agreeable to continue conjugal relation with her and filed divorce..........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 13(1)(ia) -- Divorce - Cruelty - Petition by wife - Conduct of husband i.e repeated non-appearance before Courts, persistent non-payment of maintenance amount, deliberate violation of judicial directions and total abandonment of legal proceedings, has subjected wife to prolonged mental agony, financial distress, and social humiliation -..........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 13(1)(ia) -- Divorce - Cruelty - Petition by wife - Actions of husband are not isolated lapses but form a consistent pattern of neglect, indifference and calculated harassment - His willful refusal to maintain wife coupled with blatant disregard for authority of Courts, strikes at the very foundation of matrimonial obligations and squarely..........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 13(1)(ia) -- Divorce - Cruelty - Petition by wife - Deliberate and intentional abandonment by husband both of his matrimonial obligations and of legal proceedings arising therefrom amounts to a forfeiture of his right to contest the matter - Such conduct clearly signifies implied consent to decree of divorce - Divorce granted...........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 13(1)(ia) -- Divorce - Cruelty - Petition by wife - Wife had led clear, consistent and cogent evidence establishing a continuous course of mental cruelty at the hands of husband - Her sworn testimony was not only coherent and trustworthy but stood fully corroborated by undisputed judicial records including multiple proceedings under Cr.P.C..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 125 -- Maintenance to wife - Husband is a practicing doctor - Income of husband is gradually increased as per Income Tax return of the year 2021-22 - Wife on the other hand got no income - Divorce between parties granted and husband is directed to pay Rs.20 lacs as permanent alimony to wife - Considering S.125 Cr.P.C, trauma of wife..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Section 24 -- Transfer of divorce petition - Husband does not wish to oppose transfer application - Nothing in provision S.24 CPC prohibits Court from ordering transfer where both parties agree or where opposite party raises no objection - Application allowed with directions...........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 13(1)(ia) -- Divorce - Cruelty - Petition by husband - No evidence on record that husband faced any mental cruelty from wife on account of being bald, having dark complexion and suffering from lameness - Such a ground for obtaining a decree of divorce appears to be arbitrary and concocted - Divorce petition rightly dismissed...........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 13(1)(ia) -- Divorce - Cruelty - Petition by husband - Wife has always been ready and willing to live with husband and for resumption of matrimonial relationship she made efforts for restitution of conjugal rights from her side but due to negative response of husband she was not allowed to live with him - Husband denied to keep his wife..........
