(P.B. Majmudar, J.)

Marriage between a man and woman is considered to be a sacred ceremony. It is a social contract between two individuals that unites their lives legally, economically and emotionally. The husband and wife performs the marriage ceremony with a fond hope that they will stay together for the rest of their life and both of them will have love and affection amongst each other and if any issues are born out of the said wedlock they will be looked after by them. With this pious objective, the marriages under the Hindu Marriage Act are taken place and that too in a sacred manner in the presence of a priest. Therefore, the said ceremony is a sacred ceremony which is not required to be treated lightly by either spouse treating it as a child’s play. It is said that marriages are made in heaven but they are broken on earth. Appropriate care is required to be taken to see that such marriages are not broken lightly and that is how laws are enacted for providing dissolution of marriage as per statutory grounds available. The manner in which various divorce petitions are filed creates doubt as to (i) whether the marriages which are treated as sacred ceremony will stil