Prayagraj. The Allahabad High Court said in a judgment that marriage is a sacred bond between two Hindus, which cannot be broken within a year of marriage, even if both sides are mutually agreed for it. The court said that unless there is extraordinary difficult or extraordinary immorality as described in Section 14 of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, marriage cannot be dissolved.
A bench of Justice Ashwani Kumar Mishra and Justice D. Ramesh gave the decision that Section 14 has a one -year deadline from the date of marriage in connection with filing an application for divorce, although in case of extraordinary difficult or immorality Such a petition can be considered. In this case, the two sides had filed an application to dissolve the marriage by mutual consent under Section 13-B of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, which was rejected by the Kutumb court of Saharanpur on the grounds that the minimum period of filing application Not completed.
The petitioners appealed against this decision to the High Court. The Allahabad High Court bench had rejected the first appeal filed by Nishant Bhardwaj on 15 January and gave the petitioner the option to file a fresh application after the completion of one year period. The court said that in addition to a regular basis for mutual inconvenience in the current case, no extraordinary situation was presented, allowing these parties to file an application for divorce within one year of marriage.
