{"id":249138,"date":"2021-06-02T12:11:25","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T06:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=249138"},"modified":"2021-06-11T11:04:10","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T05:34:10","slug":"cruelty-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2021\/06\/02\/cruelty-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Madras HC | 12 long years of proceedings, but no appearance of wife. Assault on husband&#8217;s vital body part, not denied. Can her appeal against dissolution of marriage be still accepted? Read on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Madras High Court: <\/strong>The Division Bench of T. Raja and G. Chandrasekharan, JJ., while upholding the decision of Court below stated that for 12 long years the wife did not appear for any proceedings to disprove the allegations of husband and crucial allegations such as assaulting husband on his vital part of the body are included which were never denied by the wife, then how can the parties be made to live together.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Present appeal was directed against the decision of the Family Court dissolving the marriage between the parties.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Counsel for the appellant\/wife argued that the trial court without taking into account the contents of various exhibits and contents of cross-examination of the respondent\/husband gave a finding of guilt of cruelty meted out to respondent\/husband that could not be sustained as the same was a result of erroneous appreciation of entire materials available before the Court below.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was also submitted that the husband had fabricated certain documents to evade the payment of maintenance. Due to which the wife had to file a number of proceedings for which the appellant could not be demoralized giving a stamp of inflicting cruelty upon her husband.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Issues that arose in the present matter were as follows:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Whether the failure on the part of the appellant\/wife to participate in the divorce proceedings before the Court below would amount to accepting the allegations made by the respondent\/husband as true?<\/li>\n<li>When the respondent\/husband has filed the petition for divorce under Section 13(1)(ia) of the Hindu Marriage Act, on the refusal of the appellant\/wife either to appear in the witness box to state her own case on oath or not offering herself to be cross examined by the other side, whether the Court below is legally justified in drawing an adverse presumption that the case set up by the appellant\/wife is not correct, under Section 114-Illus.(g) of the Evidence Act?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><u>High Court\u2019s Analysis and Finding<\/u><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bench stated that since the wife had raised counter-allegations, it was her duty and obligation to appear before the Court below and substantiate the same by disproving the allegations made by the respondent\/husband by seriously participating in the enquiry.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was rightly submitted by the counsel for the husband that when the divorce petition was pending from 2007 till 2019, for almost a period of <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>12 long years<\/strong><\/span> appellant\/wife had chosen to filed <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">13 interlocutory applications<\/span><\/strong> but it is not known why she did not choose to appear before the Court below to take part in the enquiry.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Secondly, when the wife filed a case against the respondent under Sections 498(A), 406, 323, 504 &amp; 506 of IPC, for which a <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">trial of 9 long years was held<\/span><\/strong>, after which the husband and his parents were acquitted, it is unknown why the appellant devoted time to project a false case but did not appear for the enquiry before the Court below to disprove the allegations made by the husband.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thirdly, she had also filed a case of domestic violence and for maintenance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">High Court stated that when she had boycotted the proceedings before the Court below, where she had the advantage of examining and cross-examining the respondent, she could not have come to this Court.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bench referred to Order VIII Rule 5(1) of the Code of Civil Procedure, as per which every allegation of fact in the plaint, if not denied specifically or by necessary implication, the same shall be taken to be admitted as against the person who failed to deny the same.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Conjoint reading of Order XVI, Rule 20, Order XV, Rule 4, Order XVI, Rule 20 and Order XXII, Rule 4 of CPC shows that where any party to a suit pending in Court refuses to give evidence or to produce any document then and there in his\/her possession or avoid the Court willfully, the Court can pronounce judgment or make such order against that party on the ground that he or she failed to prove the case.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">High Court referred to the Supreme Court decision in <em>Mohinder Kaur v. Sant Paul Singh, <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/27Wz0bR1\">(2019) 9 SCC 358<\/a>, wherein it was held that a party to the suit who does not appear in the witness box to state his own case on oath and does not offer himself to be cross examined by the other side, would suffer a presumption, because the case set up by hi would not be genuine, natural or honest and real one.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><u>12 Long Years and No Appearance<\/u><\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Further, in the present matter, Court\u2019s opinion was that when the appellant\/wife deliberately and willfully boycotted the proceedings before the Court below for 12 long years due to not having any evidence, she cannot approach this Court with this appeal since the same will not be maintainable.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A very crucial allegation made by the <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">husband<\/span><\/strong> was that the wife had <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">assaulted<\/span> <\/strong>him on his <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">vital part of the body<\/span><\/strong> and the same was not even denied by the wife in the counter affidavit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In view of the above-said allegation and no denying of the same by the wife, it is clear that the wife not only caused mental cruelty but also physical cruelty upon the husband.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>\u201c\u2026when the parties are all fighting for more than 14 long years, they cannot be made to live together.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><u>Unclean Hands<\/u><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Family Court of Mumbai found that the appellant came to the Court with unclean hands since in the proceeding regarding maintenance she did not show that she was working and having a source of income.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The above order became final, this Court found no justification in this appeal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">High Court found no infirmity or error in the decision of the Family Court and hence upheld the same. [Narayanee v. S. Karthik,\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/YCs3MPdZ\"><b>2021 SCC OnLine Mad 2080<\/b><\/a>, decided on 24-03-2021]<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Advocates before the Court:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For Appellant: Dr K Santhakumari<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For Respondent: J. Saravanavel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madras High Court: The Division Bench of T. Raja and G. 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