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1987 Supreme(Cal) 25

AJIT KUMAR NAYAK, A.M.BHATTACHARJEE
PRABIR CHANDRA CHATCERJEE – Appellant
Versus
KAVERI GUHA CHATTERJEE – Respondent


Advocates Appeared:
SOMENATH CHATTERJI

A. M. BHATTACHARJEE, J.

( 1 ) THIS revisional application must be rejected as no jurisdictional issue, which alone can sustain such an application, appears to have been involved. Mr. Somnath Chatterjee, the learned counsel for the petitioner has urged only two grounds in support of the revisional application and both of them appear to us to be without substance.

( 2 ) THE instant application arises out of a matrimonial proceeding initiated by the wife/opposite party by a petition for divorce of her marriage with the husband/petitioner on various grounds like cruelty, adultery etc. The petition for divorce has been labelled as one both under S. 13 of the Hindu Marriage Act and S. 27 of the Special Marriage Act and the reason for the same appears to be that the marriage between the parties was first solemnised according to Hindu rites under the Hindu Marriage Act and was thereafter also registered under the provisions of the Special Marriage Act. As will appear from the provisions of Chapter III of the Special Marriage Act, a Hindu Marriage or, for the matter of that, any duly celebrated marriage; other than one solemnised under the Special Marriage Act, may be registered under tha




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