IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Reserved on: 08.08.2025 Pronounced on: 28.08.2025 RAVI KUMAR SAINI ...Appellant VERSUS SUNITA SAINI ....Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE GURVINDER SINGH GILL HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE DEEPINDER SINGH NALWA Present: Mr. Aman Arora, Advocate for the appellant.

Mr. Kanwaljit Singh, Senior Advocate with Mr. Veer Imaan Singh Gill, Advocate for the respondent.

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DEEPINDER SINGH NALWA , J.

1. Challenge in the present appeal is to the judgment and decree dated 15.01.2020 (HMA No. 1212 of 2016), passed by the learned Principal Judge, Family Court, Amritsar, whereby the petition under Section 13 of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 (for short 'the Act') filed by the appellant-husband, was dismissed.

2. The aforesaid petition had been filed by the appellant-husband, inter alia, pleading therein that his marriage with the respondent-wife was solemnized on 30.11.1986, according to Sikh rites. After the marriage, the parties cohabited together as husband and wife, but no child was born from the lawful wedlock of parties.

3. It was pleaded that both the parties had lived together for a period of six months and during this period, their relationship wa