Supreme Court · 2021 INSC 467 · Decided 13 September 2021
Sivasankaran v. Santhimeenal
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2021 INSC 467 · [2021] 6 S.C.R. 169
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 4984/2021
- Decided
- 13 September 2021
- Bench
- SANJAY KISHAN KAUL, HRISHIKESH ROY (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 142; Hindu Marriage Act Section 13(1)
Headnote
Hindu Law - Divorce - Cruelty - Subsequent conduct - Continued allegations and litigative proceedings - Irretrievable breakdown of marriage - Parties living separately from the date of marriage for almost 20 years - Appellant-husband had remarried after court - Held: The marriage never took off from the first day and was never consummated - Continuing acts of respondent-wife amounted to cruelty even if the same had not arisen as a cause prior to institution of the divorce petition - Her conduct showed disintegration of
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