The Madhya Pradesh High Court has observed that long separation, absence of cohabitation, the complete breakdown of all meaningful bonds and the existing bitterness between the spouses must be read as 'cruelty' under Section 13 of the 1955 Act. With this, the Court allowed an appeal filed by the Husband challenging a family court order whereby his application filed under …
The Allahabad High Court has held that marriage cannot be presumed irretrievably broken down just because there has been a long separation period between the parties. The bench of Justice Saumitra Dayal Singh and Justice Donadi Ramesh held that “The decisions of the Supreme Court do not lay down a rule of thumb that the marriage may be presumed to …
