ORDER

The petitioner is before this Court calling in question order dated 01-10-2022 passed by the Principal Family Judge, Udupi on I. A. No.V in M. C. No.404 of 2021 whereby the concerned Court Page No.2 is retyped and replaced vide Court order dated 12.04.2023.

rejects the application of the petitioner to restrain the respondent from proceeding with the proceedings in Australian Court.

2. Brief facts that lead the petitioner to this Court in the subject petition, as borne out from the pleadings, are as follows:-

The petitioner is the husband and the respondent is his wife.

The two get married on 19-08-2013 at Udupi and from 2013 to 2019 the husband and the wife were residing at Bangalore which forms their matrimonial home. In the month of September 2019 it appears that the husband had to move to Australia for the purpose of his avocation. In November 2019 the wife also moves to Australia to reside with the husband. Both of them work in Australia. In the month of March 2020, just before the onset of COVID-19 when the petitioner had no active project in his kitty comes back to India for a month as he had some projects beyond the month of April, 2020. Lock-down was clamped on 24-03-2020