SC unites estranged couple; warns husband against playing mischief

Tribune News Service
New Delhi, August 4

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The Supreme Court on Wednesday resolved a matrimonial dispute as it succeeded in persuading a man from Jharkhand to take back his wife and withdraw the divorce petition and all other cases filed by him against her.

“Are you willing to take back all the cases? Your father has also lodged one,” a Bench of Chief Justice of India NV Ramana and Justice Surya Kant asked the husband who replied in the affirmative.

The wife said she was willing to join her husband but he should not torture her.

The Bench warned the man against going back on his promise made to the court to treat his wife with dignity and respect.

“If it is drama for bail, we will not leave you…we are keeping this petition pending. Take back all the cases. File an affidavit… Otherwise, you will have to go back to jail,” the Bench told senior advocate Anjana Prakash who represented the husband.

Earlier a Bench led by CJI Ramana had on July 28 interacted with an estranged couple from Andhra Pradesh and persuaded them to end their protracted legal battle that had gone on for 21 years. It had convinced the wife to withdraw her plea seeking enhancement of jail term for her husband in a dowry harassment case.