Veteran couple allowed to divorce

The court,while managing to get the veteran couple part ways,also ensured that the old lady does not have to lead the fag end of her life in penury.

It asked the former IT clerk to pay an alimony of Rs 16 lakh to his wife for maintenance. The first installment of Rs 10 lakh has been ordered to be paid forthwith while the remaining sum is to be paid at the time of the signing of the divorce decree.

The court passed the order on the lady’s petition seeking maintenance and divorce from her husband.

In her petition,she had alleged her matrimonial life had turned sour soon after the birth of her first child,a daughter,in July 1973,a year after her marriage in 1972.

Incompatibility between the couple reached a point when the man moved the court for divorce in 1976. But he withdrew his plea following a patch up brokered by their near and dear ones.

But the matter came back to square one with the husband again approaching the court for divorce in 1980,only to retract his steps a year later.

The couple lived together at their government quarters at Moti Bagh till 1987 when the wife registered a complaint with the police alleging her husband has been torturing her for petty things and moved out of the house along with her daughter.

Miffed with the wife’s behaviour,the husband again moved the court in 1989 for divorce but withdrew the same in 1995 after a patch-up for the sake of their daughter who was married in 1998.

But a few months after the daughter’s marriage,the lady moved the court for divorce and eventually,after a long-drawn legal battle,convinced the court that they were not the “made for each other” sort.