The fact that the parties could not live together beyond nine weeks itself shows that the mental disorder suffered by the respondent is o...

Section 9 of the 2006 Act must be viewed in the backdrop of this gender dimension to the practice of child marriage. Thus, it can be in...

  The husband has contended and deposed that, he came to know about the fact of first marriage of his wife only when the quarrel broke bet...

 In the present case, on the husband's petition, a decree declaring the second marriage as null and void has been granted. The learned...

The suit was filed by the wife seeking annulment of marriage by a decree of nullity under Section 25 (i) and alternatively for divorce un...

After considering the various rulings cited before me and referred herein above,  I have no doubt that both the Courts below erred in comp...

The facts referred above, disclose that there are serious allegations of mental disorder of Seema, the respondent in the HMP filed by her ...

Though the husband would be entitled to a decree of nullity, we must add that if at all we were not to grant a decree of nullity in favo...

 Having regard to the above, without even any necessity for this Court while sitting in appeal to invoke, Section 23(1)(c) and (e) of H....

It will therefore be seen that while the appellant filed the application on the ground that the respondent was impotent, the respondent, i...

So far the allegation of impotency of appellant-wife and her inability to have physical and sexual relationship is concerned, this fact is ...

The word 'fraud' has not been defined in the Act. It has, however, been defined in Section 17 of the Indian Contract Act thus-- ...

As a general rule prenuptial unchastity of the wife though unknown to the husband at the time of the marriage is not a ground for a decr...

 This general proposition, however, in my opinion, would not hold good after the amendment of clause (c) of Sec. 12 (1) of the Act by Ma...

Voidable Marriages (1) Any marriage solemnized, whether before or after the commencement of this Act, shall be voidable and may be annulle...

The Hon'ble Supreme Court in R. Lakshmi Narayan v. Santhi (supra) held that Section 9 provides that a marriage may be solemnised bet...

In my view, therefore, if the condition of a spouse is such as to make intercourse imperfect or painful it would amount to impotency. Ev...

The case of  Raghunath Gopal Daftardar v. Sau Vijaya Raghunath Daftardar  is relied upon by the learned Counsel for the appellant. In ...

Taking into consideration all the circumstances, it is very clear that the mental illness, which requires continuous medica-lion and due...

The free consent of the parties is sine quo non for valid marriage. Where consent has been obtained by force or fraud as to the nature o...