Supreme Court of India

Manish Goel v. Rohini Goel

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Reported as [2010] 2 S.C.R. 414

Bench Aftab Alam and Dr. B.S. Chauhan JJ.

Decided 5 February 2010

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What the Court ordered

In view of the above, we do not find any justification to entertain this petition.

Judgment, page 15

From the headnote

Constitution of India, 1950: c Article 136 - Scope of - Application u/s 13- (1) of Hindu Marriage Act for divorce by mutual consent pending before Family Court - Application to waive statutory period of six months rejected - Petition under Article 136 primarily on the ground that since relief could not be granted by any other 0 Court, there was no occasion for petitioner to approach High Court - HELD: The power under Article 136 cannot be used to short circuit the· legal procedure prescribed in overriding power- The Supreme Court generally does not permit a party to by-pass the normal

Authorities it was built on

2006 State of Karnataka and Ors. v. Ameerbi and Ors. cited by 8
2007 Arunima Baruah v. Union of India and Ors. cited by 8
2009 Laxmidas Morarji (dead ) by Lrs. v. Miss Behrose Darab Madan cited by 7
2008 Satish Sitole v. Smt. Ganga cited by 5
2006 Rishikesh Sharma v. Saroj Sharma cited by 4
2007 Union of India and Anr. v. Shardindu cited by 3
1972 Municipal Corporation, Bhopal, M.P. v. Misbahul Hasan & Ors. cited by 2

Where later benches applied it

2012 State of Bihar & Anr. v. Arvind Kumar & Anr. relied on
2010 Smt. Poonam v. Sumit Tanwar relied on
2023 Shilpa Sailesh v. Varun Sreenivasan referred to
2019 R. Srinivas Kumar v. R. Shametha referred to
2019 Union of India v. State of Maharashtra and Ors. referred to
2017 Amardeep Singh v. Harveen Kaur referred to
2013 C.B.I. v. Ashok Kumar Aggarwal referred to
2012 State of U.P. v. Sanjay Kumar referred to
2011 Ab. Bhaskara Rao v. Inspector of Police, Cbi Visakhapatnam referred to
2010 Neeti Malviya v. Rakesh Malviya referred to

Of those, 2 relied on · 8 referred to

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