Supreme Court of India

Dr. (mrs.) Malathi Ravi, M.D. v. Dr. B.V. Ravi M.D.

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Reported as [2014] 6 S.C.R. 218

Bench Sudhansu Jyoti Mukhopaohaya and Dipak Misra JJ.

Decided 30 June 2014

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What the Court ordered

We are of the considered opinion that it is not established that the appellant- E wife had deserted the husband for a continuous period of not less than two years immediately preceding the presentation of the petition.

Judgment, page 22

From the headnote

Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 - s. 13(1) - /ssolutiori of marriage by way of divorce - Inference of mental cruelty- On facts, petition for divorce by the husband on the ground of desertion rejected by family court; however, the High Court taking note of subsequent events, granted divorce on the ground of mental cruelty, even though said ground was not prayed in the relief clause - Interference with - Held: /legation of desertion, as enshrined uls. 13(1 )(ib) not established - However, incidents antecedent to the filing of the petition reveal the attitude and the conduct of the wife towards.her

Authorities it was built on

2012 Vishwanath S/o Sitaram Agrawal v. Sau. Sarla Vishwanath Agrawal cited by 17
2007 Samarghosh v. Jaya Ghosh cited by 10
1963 Lachman Utamchand Kirpalani v. Meena Alias Mota cited by 9
2006 Vinit Saxena v. Pankaj Pandit cited by 7
2004 A Jayachandra v. Aneel Kaur cited by 6
2005 Durga Prasanna Tripathy v. Arundhatl Tripathy cited by 6
2003 Vijay Kumar Rama Chandra Bhate v. Neela Vijay Kumar Bhate cited by 5
2014 State of Gujarat v. Kishanbhai Etc. cited by 4
2002 Savitri Pandey v. Prem Chandra Pandey cited by 3
2012 U. Sree v. U. Srinivas cited by 3
2008 Suman Kapur v. Sudhir Kapur cited by 3
2002 G.V.N. Kameswara Rao v. G. Jabilli cited by 1

Where later benches applied it

2021 Sivasankaran v. Santhimeenal relied on

Of those, 1 relied on

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