Supreme Court · 2013 INSC 255 · Decided 15 April 2013
Ashok Kumar Jain v. Sumati Jain
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2013 INSC 255 · [2013] 2 S.C.R. 841
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 3861/2013
- Decided
- 15 April 2013
- Bench
- G.S. SINGHVI, S. J. MUKHOPADHAYA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Hindu Marriage Act Section 13, 23
Headnote
HINDU MARRIAGE ACT, 1955: ss.13 and 23- Petition for divorce by husband on the grounds of cruelty and desertion - Dismissed by courts below ·A B c - Held: Both the courts below have noticed the relevant facts and have come to a definite conclusion that appellant has not only been cruel ..to to the point where respondent had no option but to leave the matrimonial home - In this situation, as appellant was trying to take advantage of his own wrong, courts below rightly disallowed the relief sought for - Order of High Court does not suffer from any infirmity, illegality or
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