JUDGEMENT AND ORDER :

N. Kotiswar Singh, J.

Heard Mr. Th. Mahira, learned counsel for the appellant and also Mr. T. Rajendra, learned counsel for the respondent No.1.

2. This appeal has been preferred against the judgment and order dated 3.2.2016 passed by the learned Judge, Family Court, Thoubal in Original Mat. (Dec.)Suit No.6/2014/2/2015 by which the learned Judge, Family Court, Thoubal passed a decree declaring that the petitioner, the respondent herein, is the legally married wife of late Ningthoujam Gopal Singh of Heirok Part-III, who was serving as a Peon-cum-Chowkidar in the Horticulture & Soil Conservation Department, Government of Manipur.

3. Several grounds have been raised assailing the said judgment and order, amongst others, that the petitioner (respondent herein) had failed to prove the alleged divorce between the appellant herein and the said late Gopal Singh.

4. The petitioner(respondent herein) had filed the said declaratory claiming that she was married to said late Gopal Singh about 32 years ago by way of Keina Katpa ceremony (a traditional way of marriage) at the house of N. Gopal Singh before Bhraman Sobha and the sagei people as the petitioner belongs to Maring co

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