Bombay High Court ends 13-year marital battle

According to the petition filed by the husband, the couple got married in May 2006 and had a son the following year. The relationship began to deteriorate in 2008, and they eventually started living separately in 2012.

From 2013 onward, the estranged couple initiated several litigations against each other, including cases related to divorce, restitution of conjugal rights, maintenance, and domestic violence. A marriage counsellor recorded in 2015 that reconciliation between the two was not possible.

In May 2019, a family court dismissed the husband’s divorce plea—filed on grounds of cruelty, desertion, suspicion and the wife’s alleged suicide attempt—holding that he had failed to prove ‘cruelty,’ prompting him to move the high court.