{"id":42420,"date":"1999-07-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-07-14T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/sydney-rajesh-vs-mrs-edith-reena-on-15-july-1999"},"modified":"2017-10-19T07:46:31","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T02:16:31","slug":"sydney-rajesh-vs-mrs-edith-reena-on-15-july-1999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/sydney-rajesh-vs-mrs-edith-reena-on-15-july-1999","title":{"rendered":"Sydney @ Rajesh vs Mrs. Edith @ Reena on 15 July, 1999"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Bombay High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Sydney @ Rajesh vs Mrs. Edith @ Reena on 15 July, 1999<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: I (2000) DMC 523<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_author\">Author: P Patankar<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: P P Patel, S Gundewar<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>JUDGMENT<\/p>\n<p> P.S. Patankar, J.  <\/p>\n<p> 1. This is for confirming the decree passed by the learned Judge of the Family Court, Nagpur dated 7.1.1999, under Section 17 of the Indian Divorce Act, 1869. The decree for dissolution of marriage came to be passed in favour of the petitioner on the ground that the respondent was living in adultery. The said decree is passed under Section 10 of the Indian Divorce Act.\n<\/p>\n<p> 2. There is no opposition on behalf of the respondent. In the Court below, the respondent filed a written statement but led no evidence. On behalf of the petitioner, the petitioner entered the witness box and also filed affidavits of two other witnesses. The petitioner was not cross-examined or the other two witnesses were also not cross-examined. On the basis of the said evidence, the said decree came to be passed.\n<\/p>\n<p> 3. We have perused the judgment passed by the learned Judge of the Family Court, Nagpur, as well as the record in the matter and we find that the learned Judge has rightly passed the said decree.\n<\/p>\n<p> 4. In view of this, the decree passed by the learned Judge of the Family Court, Nagpur, dated 7.1.1999 is confirmed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bombay High Court Sydney @ Rajesh vs Mrs. Edith @ Reena on 15 July, 1999 Equivalent citations: I (2000) DMC 523 Author: P Patankar Bench: P P Patel, S Gundewar JUDGMENT P.S. Patankar, J. 1. This is for confirming the decree passed by the learned Judge of the Family Court, Nagpur dated 7.1.1999, under Section [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bombay-high-court","category-high-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sydney @ Rajesh vs Mrs. Edith @ Reena on 15 July, 1999 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; High Court | Legal India<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/sydney-rajesh-vs-mrs-edith-reena-on-15-july-1999\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sydney @ Rajesh vs Mrs. Edith @ Reena on 15 July, 1999 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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