2025 INSC 1463
CIVIL APPEAL NO……. D. NO.17190 OF 2024 Page 1 of 6
NON-REPORTABLE
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION
CIVIL APPEAL NO. OF 2025
(ARISING OUT OF SLP (C) NO. 35588 of 2025 @ D.17190 OF 2024)
JATINDER KUMAR …APPELLANT(S)
VERSUS
JEEWAN LATA …RESPONDENT(S)
J U D G M E NT
VIKRAM NATH, J.
1. Leave granted.
2. Heard.
3. The present appeal arises out of the impugned order
dated 28th February 2014 passed by the High Court of
Punjab and Haryana at Chandigarh in FAO No. M-246 of
2012, whereby the High Court dismissed the appellant-
husband’s appeal and affirmed the dismissal of his petition
seeking dissolution of marriage.
4. The facts giving rise to the present appeal, in brief,
are as follows:
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4.1. The parties were married on 22nd June 2003 at
Morinda, District Ropar, Punjab. No child was born out of
the said wedlock.
4.2. Both parties are teachers by profession. Prior to the
marriage, the respondent-wife was working as a teacher in
Government Elementary School, Hansron, Tehsil
Nawanshahr, Punjab.
4.3. The appellant-husband contends that the marriage was
strained. In October 2004, the parties shifted to Ropar,
Punjab, when the appellant-husband was posted at
Government Senior Secondary School, Kariha. In February
2005, the appellant-...