Supreme Court · [2024] 12 S.C.R. 755 · Decided 19 December 2024
Amutha v. A.R. Subramanian
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- [2024] 12 S.C.R. 755
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 2643/2023
- Decided
- 19 December 2024
- Bench
- VIKRAM NATH, PRASANNA BHALACHANDRA VARALE (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- CPC; Hindu Marriage Act Section 13(1)(ia)
Headnote
The appellant-wife herein is challenging the grant of divorce. Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 - s.13(1)(ia) and (ib) - Cruelty and desertion - The High Court found that the respondent- husband had sufficiently established the grounds of cruelty the appellant's false criminal complaint and her indifference to reconciliation efforts caused significant mental agony to the respondent, amounting to cruelty - Additionally, her prolonged separation without reasonable cause constituted desertion - Thus, the High Court
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