The Supreme Court dissolved the marriage of J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and Payal Abdullah under Article 142 after the parties reached an amicable settlement through mediation.
Read Full ArticleThe Calcutta High Court held that an irretrievable breakdown of marriage amounts to cruelty under the Hindu Marriage Act and granted divorce after finding the parties had lived apart for nearly two decades.
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Granting divorce to a husband who claimed that the wife had made false allegations before his employer about domestic violence and of him and his mother soliciting prostitution, the Patna High Court has held that social torture in a marriage also amounts to mental torture, and thus, cruelty.
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