Supreme Court · 2023 INSC 433 · Decided 26 April 2023
SH. Rakesh Raman v. SMT. Kavita
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2023 INSC 433 · [2023] 3 S.C.R. 552
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 2012/2013
- Decided
- 26 April 2023
- Bench
- SUDHANSHU DHULIA, J.B. PARDIWALA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Hindu Marriage Act Section 13(1)(ia)
Headnote
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955: s. 13(1)(ia) and (ib) - Divorce - Grounds of cruelty and desertion - Marital discord between the parties - Petition for dissolution of marriage by the husband on the ground that the wife treated him with cruelty and deserted him,that between the parties, and that the wife had filed multiple false and frivolous criminal cases against him - Trial court passed a decree of divorce holding that the wife had deserted the husband and had meted out cruel behaviour against him - However, the High Court set aside
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