{"id":13951,"date":"2023-10-13T22:46:26","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T22:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/man-89-refused-divorce-by-indias-top-court-after-27-year-case\/"},"modified":"2023-10-13T22:46:26","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T22:46:26","slug":"man-89-refused-divorce-by-indias-top-court-after-27-year-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/man-89-refused-divorce-by-indias-top-court-after-27-year-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 89, refused divorce by India\u2019s top court after 27-year case"},"content":{"rendered":"
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India\u2019s top court has denied an octogenarian man the right to divorce his wife of six decades, 27 years after he first applied to dissolve their marriage.<\/p>\n
Divorce remains taboo across much of India, with only one in every 100 marriages ending in dissolution, often owing to family and social pressure to sustain unhappy marriages.<\/p>\n
Those seeking divorce must get approval from the courts, which typically only grant it if proof of cruelty, violence or undue financial demands is presented.<\/p>\n
Nirmal Singh Panesar, 89, married in 1963 but said in filings with India\u2019s notoriously glacial criminal justice system that his relationship had broken down irretrievably in 1984.<\/p>\n
That year his wife Paramjit Kaur Panesar, now 82, had refused to move with him to the southern city of Chennai when the Indian Air Force posted him there.<\/p>\n
Nirmal first filed for divorce in 1996 on the grounds of cruelty and desertion, granted by a district court in 2000 but overturned later that year after an appeal by Paramjit.<\/p>\n
His case took another two decades to make its way before the Supreme Court, which denied the divorce petition despite agreeing their marriage was \u201cbeyond salvation\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe institution of marriage is still considered to be a pious, spiritual, and invaluable emotional life-net between the husband and the wife in Indian society,\u201d said the court\u2019s judgement, which was published<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n