Supreme Court · 2014 INSC 660 · Decided 22 September 2014
Vidhya Viswanathan v. Kartik Balakrishnan
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2014 INSC 660 · [2014] 7 S.C.R. 1164
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 9036/2014
- Decided
- 22 September 2014
- Bench
- S. J. MUKHOPADHAYA, PRAFULLA C. PANT (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Hindu Marriage Act Section 13(1)(ia), 25; Family Courts Act Section 19
Headnote
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 - ss.13(1)(ia) and 25 - Divorce C - On ground of cruelty - Mental cruelty - Divorce petition filed by respondent-husband dismissed by trial court - But allowed by High Court - Propriety - Held: Respondent-husband in his evidence narrated in detail, the incidents of by him - He was subjected to lengthy cross- D examination but nothing came out which created doubt in his testimony - Appellant-wife denied allegations made by respondent-husband but in cross-examination she admitted that the marriage was not consummated - Not allowing a spouse for a Jong time,
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