New Delhi, February 15: The Supreme Court has castigated a chartered accountant-doctor couple for seeking to abuse the judicial process to obtain a quick divorce without waiting for the mandatory six-month cooling period.
“This case reveals a very sorry state of affairs that the parties being highly qualified have claimed to be higher and above the law and have a vested right to use, misuse and abuse the process of the court,” a bench of Justices Aftab Alam and B S Chauhan said in an order.
The apex court passed the order while dismissing the appeal of Manish Goel, a chartered accountant, who sought divorce from his estranged doctor wife Rohini Goel (MD, Radio Diagnosis) even though the matrimonial court had granted the couple six months time for reconcillation.
–Agencies