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The Court held that there was no error in the jurisdiction or reasoning in the impugned order because as per admitted income of the wife, her monthly income would be Rs 1.66 lakhs, and even if it had been reduced, it would still be 1.25 lakhs.
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“In case where necessary pleadings are there and no declaration is sought regarding illegitimacy of the child and the issue only relates to adultery of the wife, then in appropriate cases, a DNA test can be ordered, if there are sufficient pleadings of non-access”.
“So far as the medical examination to ascertain whether the wife has ever entered into a sexual relationship or not, is concerned, it is nothing but seeking a virginity test of the wife, in other words.”
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The Court noted that the wife admitted in her written statement and oral testimony that after taking medication she had become capable of bearing children.
“Instead of tendering an unqualified apology, has tried to contest his act of solemnizing the second marriage during the pendency of the above appeal and stay having been granted therein.”
The Court observed that the husband, being a judicial officer holding a responsible public position, owed a heightened duty of fair, adequate, and dignified financial security for his wife and daughter.
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“We are surprised and shocked by the way the Family Court has taken the matter under Order VII Rule 11 of the CPC and given a relief to the husband, which was liable to be given only after framing the issues and recording the evidence.”
As per the settlement, the husband agreed to deposit a total sum of Rs. 30,00,000. However, the husband merely deposited cheques of certain amounts, which had not been released to the wife, due to husband’s failure to appear in Family Court, resulting in dismissal of divorce petition.
“Sustained neglect of marital obligations, coupled with acts designed to exacerbate discord, eroded the very foundation of the matrimonial bond.”
“A persistent resolved attitude of respondent-wife to see that her husband is ridiculed and humiliated in his social circle as an alcoholic is definitely a serious affair.”
“If the wife ill-treated the children, it would certainly cause an apprehension in the husband’s mind that it would be harmful or injurious for him to live with her where the expression ‘harmful or injurious’ was not confined to physical acts alone, but extended to mental torture as well.”
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Dismissal of the divorce petition by the Family Court on the grounds that the wife did not become violent and cerebral palsy only restricted body movements and was not a mental disorder, was acutely incorrect.
“This dreadful act is sufficient to hold that she has committed mental cruelty with the husband and the Trial Court erred in not appreciating the facts evident on the record and even more so in replacing them with its own perceived notions.”
“Her behaviour, including instigating the daughter against the father, making unfounded demands during a financially unstable period, and leaving the home with the daughter while abandoning the son, demonstrated a pattern of mental harassment and disregard for the matrimonial bond.”
Matrimonial litigation, particularly where financial dependency and concealment are alleged, demands a sensitive and pragmatic approach. The documents and witnesses sought to be introduced by the wife are not collateral or immaterial but rather, directly affect determination of maintenance which is a matter of subsistence.