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2000 Supreme(SC) 997

Lily Thomas – Appellant
Versus
Union Of India – Respondent


Judgment

S. Saghir Ahmad, J.—(Concurring Judgment)

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, am however, wish to add a few words of my own.

2. 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 Vanita Gupta resi­dent of D-152 Preet Vihar, Delhi, a divorcee with two children in the second week of July, 1992. The Respondent No. 3 also showed a Certifi­cate issued by office of the Maulana Qari Mohammad Idris, Shahi Qazi dated






































































































































































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