Bombay High Court Quashes Family Court Order, Allows Amendment of Divorce Petition to Include Desertion Ground After Two-Year Separation Elapses During Pendency. The Court Holds That When a Divorce Petition Originally Filed on Ground of Cruelty Becomes Amendable to Add Desertion After the Statutory Period Elapses During Pendency, the Amendment Should Be Allowed, and It Relates Back Only to the Date of the Amendment Application, Not the Original Filing.
21 Sep 2017The petitioner, the husband, had filed a divorce petition before the Family Court at Nagpur on the ground of cruelty, which was maintainable at the ti...
