JUDGMENT :

MANISH CHOUDHURY, J.

1. The court proceedings have been conducted through Video-Conference.

2. Sangita Dibruwal, the wife and Mridul Gogoi, the husband have filed a joint application in Mat. App. No. 37/2018 with a prayer that the Matrimonial Appeal be converted into a joint petition under section 13B of Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 and divorce by dissolution of marriage through mutual consent be granted.

We need not go into the details because all the relevant facts are recorded in order dated 16.7.2020 passed in the application. For the benefit of convenience, order dated 16.7.2020 is extracted herein below:

“The court proceedings have been conducted through Video-Conference.

2. Learned counsel for the applicant is not available.

3. The application seeks indulgence of the court to convert the matrimonial appeal in to an application under section 13(B) of Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, and grant divorce by mutual consent. The appeal has been preferred by the wife, Sangita Dibruwal against the husband, Mridul Gogoi.

4. It has been pleaded in the application that the marriage between the two was solemnized on 16.1.2006 at Naharkatia, District-Dibrugarh, Assam. After marriage, the parties