Supreme Court of India
Sivasankaran v. Santhimeenal
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What the Court ordered
We are of the view that an end to this marriage would permit the parties to go their own way in life after having spent two decades battling each other, and there can always be hope, even 183 at this age, for a better life, if not together, separately.
Judgment, page 14
From the headnote
Hindu Law – Divorce – Cruelty – Subsequent conduct – Continued allegations and litigative proceedings – Irretrievable breakdown of marriage – Parties living separately f rom the date of marriage for almost 20 years – Appellant-husband had remarried after grant of divorce by trial court – ivorce decree set aside by appellate court – Held: The marriage ne ver took off from the first day and was never consummated – Cont inuing acts of respondent-wife amounted to cruelty even if the same had not arisen as a cause prior to institution of the divorce petit ion – Her conduct showed disintegration of
Authorities it was built on
- 2012 Vishwanath S/o Sitaram Agrawal v. Sau. Sarla Vishwanath Agrawal
- 2006 Naveen Kohli v. Neelu Kohli
- 2011 Hitesh Bhatnagar v. Deepa Bhatnagar
- 2004 A Jayachandra v. Aneel Kaur
- 2019 Munish Kakkar v. Nidhi Kakkar
- 2019 R. Srinivas Kumar v. R. Shametha
- 2013 K. Srinivas Rao v. D.A. Deepa
- 2014 Dr. (mrs.) Malathi Ravi, M.D. v. Dr. B.V. Ravi M.D.
Where later benches applied it
- 2023 Supriyo @ Supriya Chakraborty & Anr v. Union of India
- 2023 Smt. Roopa Soni v. Kamalnarayan Soni
- 2023 Shilpa Sailesh v. Varun Sreenivasan
- 2022 N. Rajendran v. S. Valli
Of those, 4 mentioned
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