Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 13(1)(ia) -- Divorce - Cruelty - Husband failed to examine his parents or any other witness to substantiate his contention that it is wife who is at fault and that she abused him in filthy language and was in dominating nature - In the absence of any evidence from husband's side, it cannot be said that he underwent cruelty in the hands of..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Section 24 -- Transfer of matrimonial case - Wife sought transfer of divorce proceedings on the ground that she is financially dependent on her parents and therefore unable to pursue proceedings in Pune - She has been deliberately delaying the matter for over four years as recorded in 2024 and even remained absent for nearly seven months..........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 13(1)(ib) -- Divorce - Desertion - Desertion is not withdrawal from a place but from a state of things...........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 13(1)(ib) -- Divorce - Desertion - There can be desertion without previous cohabitation by parties or without marriage having been consummated - Person who actually withdraws from cohabitation is not necessarily deserting party...........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 13(1)(ib) -- Divorce - Desertion - Petition by husband - Wife has deposed that she is very keen and desirous to live and stay with her husband all through her life and perform her duties - Desertion has not been proved before Family Court through concrete and tangible evidence - Divorce petition rightly dismissed...........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 13(1)(ia) -- Divorce - Cruelty - Mere acquittal from charges u/s 406 IPC, cannot ipso facto be construed, as an act of cruelty on part of wife so as to entitle husband to divorce more particularly when husband has been convicted u/ss 498-A, 323 of IPC...........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 13(1)(ia) -- Divorce - Cruelty - Petition by husband - Mere fact that after grant of decree of restitution of conjugal rights in favour of husband, one compromise was entered into between husband and wife wherein husband has accepted his mistakes, such factum of entering into compromise by accepting his guilt would make it clear that..........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 13(1)(ia) -- Divorce - Cruelty - Cruelty cannot be assessed only on basis of any single incident and all incidents referred and evidence led are to be examined in cumulative manner in order to arrive at conclusion as to whether cruelty has taken place or not...........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 13(1)(ia) -- Divorce - Cruelty - Act of driving away wife while she was with child amounts to moral and emotional dereliction, if not cruelty and undermines husband's claim of suffering cruelty at the hands of wife...........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 13(1)(ia) -- Divorce - Cruelty - Petition by husband - Conduct of husband in driving away his wife at a vulnerable stage, after seeking judicial assistance to resume cohabitation, amounts to matrimonial misconduct and disentitles him from seeking relief on the principles of fault theory embodied in S.23(1)(a) of Hindu Marriage Act -..........
