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Vishwanath S/o Sitaram Agrawal v. Sau. Sarla Vishwanath Agrawal

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Reported as [2012] 7 S.C.R. 607
Bench Deepak Verma and Dipak Misra JJ.
Decided 4 July 2012

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What the Court ordered

We are of the considered opinion that the subsequent events can be taken into consideration.

Judgment, page 33

From the headnote

Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 - s. 13(1)(ia) - Divorce petition filed by husband - On ground of cruelty - Held: The conduct 8 of the wife and circumstances of the case make it graphically clear that the wife had really humiliated the husband and caused him mental cruelty - Her conduct clearly exposits that it resulted in causing agony and anguish in the mind of the husband - The wife publicised in the newspapers that the husband was a womaniser and a drunkard - She made wild o allegations about his character - She made an effort to prosecute him in criminal litigations which she failed to prove -

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Of those, 4 relied on · 7 referred to · 6 mentioned

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