Supreme Court · 2019 INSC 1384 · Decided 17 December 2019
Munish Kakkar v. Nidhi Kakkar
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2019 INSC 1384 · [2019] 15 S.C.R. 169
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 9318/2019
- Decided
- 17 December 2019
- Bench
- SANJAY KISHAN KAUL, K.M. JOSEPH (2-judge bench)
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 142; Hindu Marriage Act Section 13(1)(ia)
Headnote
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955: s. 13(1)(ia) - Petition seeking divorce - By husband - Trial Court passed decree of divorce - High Court set aside the decree - Appeal to Supreme Court - Held: The High Court has brushed aside the allegations as wear and tear of an extent that continuity of marriage is fruitless - Though the ground of 'irretrievable breakdown of marriage' has not been inserted as a ground for divorce under the Act, in exercise of jurisdiction u/Art. 142 of the Constitution, in order to put a quiet us to the dispute,
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