Supreme Court of India

Krishna Bhatacharjee v. Sarathi Choudhury and Anr.

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Reported as [2015] 14 S.C.R. 65
Bench Dipak Misra and Prafulla C. Pant JJ.
Decided 20 November 2015
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What the Court ordered

In view of the aforesaid pronouncement, it is quite clear that there is a distinction between a decree for divorce and decree of judicial separation; in the former, there is a severance of status and the parties do not remain as husband and wife, whereas in the latter, the relationship between B husband and wife continues and the legal relationship continues as it has not been snapped.

Judgment, page 20

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 distinguished · 1 referred to

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