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PETITIONER:

LILY THOMAS, ETC. ETC.

Vs.

RESPONDENT:

UNION OF INDIA & ORS.

DATE OF JUDGMENT: 05/05/2000

BENCH:

R.P.Sethi, S.S.Ahmad

JUDGMENT:

S. SAGHIR AHMAD, J.

I respectfully agree with the views expressed by my

esteemed Brother, Sethi, J., in the erudite judgment

prepared by him, by which the Writ Petitions and the Review

Petition are being disposed of finally. I, however, wish to

add a few words of my own. Smt. Sushmita Ghosh, who is the

wife of Shri G.C. Ghosh (Mohd. Karim Ghazi) filed a Writ

Petition [W.P.(C) No. 509 of 1992] in this Court stating

that she was married to Shri G.C. Ghosh in accordance with

the Hindu rites on 10th May, 1984 and since then both of

them were happily living at Delhi. The following paragraphs

of the Writ Petition, which are relevant for this case, are

quoted below: "15. That around the 1st of April, 1992, the

Respondent No. 3 told the petitioner that she should in her

own interest agree to her divorce by mutual consent as he

had any way taken to Islam so that he may remarry and in

fact he had already fixed to marry one Miss Van