Major Sumit Joshi vs Aditi Sharma - 2023 Supreme(P&H) 1873

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2023 Supreme(P&H) 1873

RITU BAHRI, MANISHA BATRA
Major Sumit Joshi – Appellant
Versus
Aditi Sharma – Respondent

Advocates Appeared:
For the Petitioner: Mr. Kanwar Yuvraj Singh, Mr. Rajesh Kumar.
For the Respondent: Mr. Raman Mahajan.

JUDGMENT :

(Manisha Batra, J).

Having lost his case of seeking dissolution of his marriage with the respondent-wife on the ground of cruelty in terms of Section 13(1)(i-a) of the HINDU MARRIAGE ACT , 1955 (hereinafter to be mentioned as "the Act") before the Additional District Judge, Panchkula, the husband has knocked at the door of this Court by filing the present appeal.

2. For the sake of convenience, the parties shall be referred to as per the nomenclature as given in the original petition as filed by the petitioner-husband.

3. The case as set up by the petitioner is that he got married with the respondent-wife on 29.11.2010 according to Hindu rites and ceremonies. A simple marriage was performed between the parties. There was no demand of dowry. Just after the marriage, the parties had gone to Mauritius for their honeymoon. The behaviour of the respondent was not normal since the very inception of their marital life and she acted in a strange manner at the airport itself while going to Mauritius by disappearing and on search being made by the petitioner, was found sitting in an isolated place. She argued and quarreled with the petitioner on trivial matters even on honeymoon. Th