Supreme Court · 2023 INSC 814 · Decided 6 September 2023
SMT. Roopa Soni v. Kamalnarayan Soni
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2023 INSC 814 · [2023] 14 S.C.R. 871
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 5700/2023
- Decided
- 6 September 2023
- Bench
- SANJIV KHANNA, M.M. SUNDRESH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 3, 4; Hindu Marriage Act Section 13(1)(ia), 23
Headnote
HEADNOTES Issue for consideration: Whether the trial Court and High Court were justifi ed in adopting a hyper-technical and pedantic approach in declining the decree of divorce, when both the parties had made serious allegations against each other and were living separately for decade Act, 1955 - The appellant-wife registered a complaint u/s. 498A of IPC and ss.3 and 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961 - The respondent-Husband had questioned the character of the appellant-wife - Petition for divorce - Trial Court and the High Court declined decree of
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