{"id":3015,"date":"2026-01-16T14:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T09:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omnia-digital.com\/merlyn\/?p=3015"},"modified":"2026-01-16T14:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T09:00:08","slug":"filing-of-criminal-case-acquittal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omnia-digital.com\/merlyn\/filing-of-criminal-case-acquittal\/","title":{"rendered":"Filing of Criminal Case & Acquittal"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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It has been observed that filing of a criminal case by one of the parties to the marriage and the acquittal therein cannot be automatically treated as a ground for granting divorce if such a ground is not raised in the divorce petition.<\/em><\/p>

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Similarly, if a partner files a criminal case against the spouse and has raised the particular reason as a ground in the application for divorce filed before the concerned family court. The petitioner cannot rely on this ground ; if his spouse or partner has been acquitted by the criminal courts for the charges framed against them.<\/em><\/p>

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Moreover, the Court stated the following:<\/em><\/p>

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“as on the date when the cause of action had arisen for the husband who initiated the proceedings seeking dissolution of the marriage, the criminal case filed against him was not the basis whereby a ground was raised of causing mental cruelty by filing such criminal complaint. If that be the position, a situation which was not the basis for initiating the petition for dissolution of marriage and when that was also not an issue before the Trial Court so as to tender evidence and a decision be taken, the High Court was not justified in raising the same as a substantial question of law and arriving at its conclusion in that regard”<\/em><\/p>

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Furthermore, In a matter where the differences between the parties are not of such magnitude and is in the nature of the usual wear and tear of marital life, the future of the child and her marital prospects are also to be kept in view, and in such circumstance the dissolution of marriage merely because they have been litigating and they have been residing separately for quite some time would not be justified in the present facts, more particularly when the restitution of conjugal rights was also considered simultaneously.<\/em><\/p>

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References: Mangayakarasi Vs. M.Yuvaraj<\/strong><\/p>

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Filing of Criminal Case & Acquittal It has been observed that filing of a criminal case by one of the parties to the marriage and the acquittal therein cannot be automatically treated as a ground for granting divorce if such a ground is not raised in the divorce petition. Similarly, if a partner files a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3016,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_header_footer","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-criminal-law"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omnia-digital.com\/merlyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omnia-digital.com\/merlyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omnia-digital.com\/merlyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omnia-digital.com\/merlyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omnia-digital.com\/merlyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/omnia-digital.com\/merlyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8409,"href":"https:\/\/omnia-digital.com\/merlyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015\/revisions\/8409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omnia-digital.com\/merlyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omnia-digital.com\/merlyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omnia-digital.com\/merlyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omnia-digital.com\/merlyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}