Supreme Court · 2006 INSC 158 · Decided 21 March 2006
Vinit Saxena v. Pankaj Pandit
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2006 INSC 158 · [2006] 3 S.C.R. 116
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1687/2006
- Decided
- 21 March 2006
- Bench
- RUMA PAL, AR. LAKSHMANAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Hindu Marriage Act Section 13
Headnote
IT A SAXENA v. PANKAJ PANDIT MARCH 21, 2006 [RUMA PAL AND DR. AR. LAKSHMANAN, JJ.) Hindu law: Hindu Marriage Act, 1955: Section 13(/)(i-a) and (iii). Divorce-Cruelty and mental disorder-Non-consummation of marriage-Marriage solemnized in 1993-Marriage lasted only for jive months but was never of Paranoid Schizophrenia and under constant medical treatment even prior to marriage­ Wife filed a petition for divorce on grounds of mental and physical cruelty­ The wife's case was that on account of Paranoid Schizophrenia that the husband was suffering from, she could not be
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