IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of Decision: 08.10.2025 Neetu Rani Satija ...Appellant Versus Pankaj Kumar ...Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE GURVINDER SINGH GILL HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE LAPITA BANERJI Present: Mr. Sunny K. Singla, Advocate, for the applicant/appellant.

GURVINDER SINGH GILL, J.

CM-17421-CII-2025 For the reasons mentioned in the application, the same is allowed and the delay of 76 days in filing the accompanying appeal is condoned.

FAO-5204-2025

1. The appellant/respondent (wife) assails judgment and decree dated

13.03.2025 passed by the learned Family Court, Sangrur, whereby a petition under Section 9 of the Hindu Marriage Act (for short ‘the HMA’) filed by the respondent (husband) for restitution of conjugal rights has been decreed.

2. The case set up by the respondent (husband) in his petition under Section

9 of the HMA is that the marriage between the parties was solemnized on 01.12.2017 in a simple ceremony wherein no dowry article was demanded or given to the respondent or to any member of his family. The appellant (wife) was a divorcee at the time of marriage. After the marriage, the parties started residing in the house of respondent (