Supreme Court · 2021 INSC 629 · Decided 7 October 2021
Nitaben Dinesh Patel v. Dinesh Dahyabhai Patel
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2021 INSC 629 · [2021] 8 S.C.R. 618
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 5901/2021
- Decided
- 7 October 2021
- Bench
- M.R. SHAH, A.S. BOPANNA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- CPC; Hindu Marriage Act Section 23A
Headnote
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 - s.23A - Proceedings for divorce or judicial separation or restitution of conjugal rights - Counter- claim for relief - Scope - Held: By way of counter claim, the respondent in any proceedings for divorce or of conjugal rights can pray for relief by way of counter claim only those reliefs which can be prayed and/or granted under the Hindu Marriage Act - The respondent to such proceedings can pray for reliefs only by way of counter claim and that too between the petitioner and the respondent
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