Supreme Court of India

Smruti Pahariya v. Sanjay Pahariya

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Reported as [2009] 8 S.C.R. 631

Bench K.G. Balakrishnan, P. Sathasivam and T Asok Kumar Ganguly JJ.

Decided 11 May 2009

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What the Court ordered

We are of the view that it is only on the continued mutual consent of the parties that decree for divorce under Section 138 of the said Act can be passed by the Court.

Judgment, page 22

Where later benches applied it

2026 Dhananjay Rathi v. Ruchika Rathi referred to
2023 Shilpa Sailesh v. Varun Sreenivasan referred to
2011 Hitesh Bhatnagar v. Deepa Bhatnagar mentioned

Of those, 2 referred to · 1 mentioned

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