Divorce under a non-existent law? Allahabad High Court sets aside Family Court order for ‘casual’ error

Allowing the appeal, the Division Bench of Justice Atul Sreedharan and Justice Vivek Saran remanded the matter for fresh adjudication, observing that courts are duty-bound to apply correct and existing law, and cannot sustain a decree based on repeated reliance on a statute that has no existence in law.

Divorce under a non-existent law? Allahabad High Court sets aside Family Court order for ‘casual’ error
Allowing the appeal, the Division Bench of Justice Atul Sreedharan and Justice Vivek Saran remanded the matter for fresh adjudication, observing that courts are duty-bound to apply correct and existing law, and cannot sustain a decree based on repeated reliance on a statute that has no existence in law.