Divorced Case

In one of the matrimonial cases handled by our lawyers, our client was a resident of a village in northern India. She got married to a U.S. resident in March 1999. Their marriage was solemnized according to Hindu rites at Ludhiana and was got duly registered under the Hindu Marriage Act.

Till April the husband and wife lived together in India and thereafter both of them left for USA, the husband on a work visa and his wife on a dependant visa. On reaching USA, the husband told our client that he wanted to severe his wedlock with her as was in a relationship with another girl. He abused and insulted her in every possible manner and meted out acts of mental and physical cruelty to her. Shortly thereafter the husband abandoned the matrimonial home, leaving our client all alone abroad. Due to the acts of cruelty of her husband our client suffered from depression for which she had to take medical treatment at her own cost. Being not very conversant with the legal procedures pertaining to matrimonial relief, our client contacted us from USA and narrated her woes. We immediately advised her to move the Indian Courts for divorce. On basis of the above facts we filed a petition for divorce under section 13 of the Hindu Marriage Act on behalf of her. We pleaded that:

1. The husband had deserted his wife for the last more than two years without any reasonable cause or reason.
2. The husband had treated his wife with cruelty of the gravest nature which caused a reasonable apprehension in the mind of the petitioner that it would be injurious to live with him.
3. The marriage had broken down irretrievably and there is no chance of reconciliation between the parties.

On the basis of the above grounds a decree of divorce was granted to our client.