Supreme Court of India

K. Srinivas Rao v. D.A. Deepa

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Reported as [2013] 2 S.C.R. 126

Bench Aftab Alam and Ranjana Prakash Desai JJ.

Decided 22 February 2013

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What the Court ordered

We hold that the respondent- C wife has caused by her conduct mental cruelty to the appellant h usband and the marriage has irretrievably broken down.

Judgment, page 21

From the headnote

Hindu Marriage Act, 1955: c ss.13(1)(i-a) and (b) - Petition for dissolution of marriage on grounds of cruelty and desertion - 'Cruelty' - Explained - Held: In the instant case, the conduct of respondent-wife in filing a complaint making unfounded, indecent and defamatory allegation against her mother-in-law, in filing 0 revision seeking enhancement of the sentence awarded to the appellant-husband, and filing and pursuing litigations against appellant-husband and his parents indicates that she made all attempts to ensure that he and his parents are put in jail and he is removed from his job -

Authorities it was built on

2003 B.S. Joshi and Ors. v. State of Haryana and Anr. cited by 13
2007 Samarghosh v. Jaya Ghosh cited by 10
2006 Naveen Kohli v. Neelu Kohli cited by 9
2005 Durga Prasanna Tripathy v. Arundhatl Tripathy cited by 6
2003 Vijay Kumar Rama Chandra Bhate v. Neela Vijay Kumar Bhate cited by 5
1993 V. Bhagat v. Mrs. D. Bhagat cited by 4
2000 G.V. Rao v. L.H.V. Prasad and Ors. cited by 3
2010 Ramgopal & Anr. v. State of M.P. & Anr. cited by 1

Where later benches applied it

2021 Sivasankaran v. Santhimeenal relied on
2024 Rinku Baheti v. Sandesh Sharda referred to
2019 R. Srinivas Kumar v. R. Shametha referred to
2015 Ramchander v. Ananta referred to

Of those, 1 relied on · 3 referred to

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