Supreme Court of India
Shikha v. State of Odisha
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What the Court ordered
Consequently, the application bearing I.A. No.294511 of 2025 filed by respondent No.3/husband under Article 142 of the Constitution is allowed and the marriage between the petitioner and respondent No.3 which took place on 04.12.2016 at Cuttack, Odisha stands dissolved. Further, all the pending cases enumerated in the table above as well as any other cases being of either civil or criminal nature filed inter se between the parties, stand quashed. The parties are also directed not to file any fresh cases against each other. These transfer petitions are accordingly disposed of. The Registry of this Court is directed to draw up a decree.
Judgment, 24-28
In brief
The petitioner/wife and respondent No.3/husband were married on 04.12.2016 at Cuttack, Odisha, and on account of irreconcilable differences began living separately from 2022. Their disputes generated a long list of civil and criminal proceedings across Cuttack, Mumbai, Noida and Delhi, filed inter se by the spouses and their family members, including FIR/charge-sheet proceedings, cross-complaints under Section 498A IPC and the Domestic Violence Act, 2005, and a divorce petition under Section 13(1)(i-a) of the Hindu Marriage Act.…
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