A husband who obtained a divorce from a Lok Adalat in Kolkata after allegedly getting another woman to pose as his wife has been stopped on his tracks by the Calcutta High Court.The wife, Dipika Das got the shock of her life when her husband of eight years Sanjiv told her that he had obtained a decree of divorce from the Lok Adalat and asked her to move out.A Lok Adalat order cannot be challenged in court as decisions are taken on mutual consent between two aggrieved parties. But in Das case, the high court decided to intervene exercising its power of superintendence under Section 227 of the Constitution as a fraud on the court was suspected.Justice Partha Sakha Dutta, on hearing the plea of a distraught Das, stayed the decree of divorce and directed that a notice be issued to the husband.Das married Sanjiv in April 2001 and gave birth to a son. But after a few years, the relationship soured.They remained together with relatives and friends trying to patch up their relationship.Sanjiv, however, showed Das a divorce decree from the Lok Adalat in April this year and asked her to move out.Suspecting that something was amiss, Das moved the high court and later she came to know that her husband had allegedly used another woman to appear before the Lok Adalat.The matter would come up for hearing again after three weeks.
