{"id":238966,"date":"2020-11-10T17:00:17","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T11:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=238966"},"modified":"2020-11-11T09:36:27","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T04:06:27","slug":"ker-hc-if-a-wife-obtains-husbands-consent-for-marriage-by-suppressing-material-facts-like-cardiac-ailments-would-that-amount-to-fraud-bench-explains-whether-marriage-can-be-declared-null-void","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/11\/10\/ker-hc-if-a-wife-obtains-husbands-consent-for-marriage-by-suppressing-material-facts-like-cardiac-ailments-would-that-amount-to-fraud-bench-explains-whether-marriage-can-be-declared-null-void\/","title":{"rendered":"Ker HC | If a wife obtains husband&#8217;s consent for marriage by suppressing material facts like cardiac ailments, would that amount to fraud? Bench explains whether marriage can be declared null &#038; void"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Kerala High Court:\u00a0<\/strong>A Division Bench of A.M. Shaffique and Mary Joseph, JJ., upheld the Family Court&#8217;s decision wherein the wife obtained the consent of husband by fraud.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Husband in the original petition sought a perpetual injunction restraining respondents and their men from trespassing into the petition schedule property and general damages for loss suffered.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Marriage | Null &amp; Void<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another petition by the husband was filed seeking to declare the marriage between himself and respondent null and void for the reason that it was not consummated due to the heart ailment of the wife, suppressing which factum the consent for marriage was obtained<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another petition was filed by the wife seeking to get back money and gold ornaments given to her at the time of marriage, taken custody of and misappropriated by her husband.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wife had also sought monthly maintenance under Section 125 of Criminal Procedure Code, 1973.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Husband&#8217;s petitions were allowed and marriage was declared null and void with a direction to pay damages, whereas the petitions filed by the wife seeking maintenance and return of gold were dismissed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Aggrieved by the orders issued, the wife preferred the appeals as stated above.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Analysis and Decision<\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Suppressing Material Factum | Foul Play and Fraud<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bench stated that it is constrained to take a view that without revealing the cardiac ailments the wife had, the consent of the husband for marriage was obtained and suppressing of a material factum is undoubtedly a foul play and nothing short of fraud.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Consent of the husband for the marriage was obtained by playing fraud on him.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hence Court found no fault in the family court&#8217;s decision in granting a decree declaring the marriage as null and void on the strength of the evidence already discussed with.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With regard to the damages being allowed to the husband, Court stated that as discussed above, husband had every reason for the claim made to succeed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Family Court declined the wife for getting back the money and gold ornaments given to the husband at the time of marriage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bench stated that after scrutiny of Ext.A6 it was of a view that all articles belonging to the wife were already received by her from the husband.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With regard to the maintenance being denied by the Family Court, the bench observed that since the marriage was declared as null and void, the lady cannot claim the status of a wife so as to be entitled to raise a claim for maintenance.<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 20\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The arguments advanced by the wife to get a reversal of the impugned common order being untenable ones, bench discarded those. 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