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IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH
RAVI NATH TILHARI, J
Mohammad Razik Shaik, S/o. Nazeer Basha – Appellant
Versus
Sufia Sultana Bano Mohammad, W/o. Rajik Shaik, D/o. Mohammad Hussain Saleem – Respondent
| Table of Content |
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| 1. husband's application for video conferencing (Para 2 , 3) |
| 2. opposition to video conferencing (Para 4) |
| 3. point for consideration (Para 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11) |
| 4. necessity of physical presence (Para 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 , 30) |
| 5. civil revision petition dismissed (Para 31 , 32) |
JUDGMENT :
(RAVI NATH TILHARI, J.)
Heard Sri Suryam Gannavarapu, learned counsel for the petitioner and Sri S. Lakshminarayana Reddy, learned counsel for the respondent.
2. The petitioner is the husband of the respondent/wife. The respondent/wife filed F.C.O.P.No.1313 of 2022 (in short ‘FCOP’), pending in the Court of XIV Additional District & Sessions Judge-cum-Judge, Additional Family Court, Vijayawada (in short ‘the Family Court’), through General Power of Attorney holder, under the Mohammedan Law, for restitution of conjugal rights. The marriage (Nikha) was performed on 05.12.2020 as per Muslim law, rites and customs at Hyderabad. It is the case of the respondent/wife that the husband used to work in Canada and also gave a hope to the wife that he will take her to Canada and would settle there. The wife came to know that the husband
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