I had filed for divorce from my wife 3 yrs back on the grounds of cruelty. My wife who was staying with her parents after receiving the notice and failing to get the case transferred to another city forced herself into our house and thereafter unleashed one year of terror via police , media and various woman friendly organizations . Finally she left our home having done a FIR under sec307, 308, 498a etc. Me and my family refused to get blackmailed and cough up the money she wanted and finally when the family court summoned her for cross examination in the divorce case she buckled fearing the preponderance of evidence against her and submitted an affidavit accepting divorce and choosing a legal way to get the money via permanent alimony .
The judge thereafter said that since divorce was wanted from both sides he only wanted to hear about alimony and my wife and her father appeared in the court asking for a certain sum which I contested since she was earning almost the same as me( both of us are doctors) .
And then came the bolt from the blue -the judgement . The judge had quashed my petition for divorce and said I had failed to prove her cruelty . (I had been cross examined along with my witness ). He had ignored all the evidence including a lot of electronic evidence her voice and filthy language (judged that he couldn't make out its content on his computer ) . He had not even mentioned any of the cruelty meted out to us and also notmentioned the FIR after which we were forced to leave our own homes fearing arrest...very cleverly manipulating words and sentences and said that my wife is forced to live in a small house and we have multiple houses and this is cruelty .
so no divorce and no alimony and and an incredibly insane judgement that says that my family has been cruel to her and all this when there is no evidence from her on the record .3 years of painstaking work to build up the case just wasted because of one prejudiced judge . My wife is back to her old antics and is again trying to renter my house and I believe only to create more false cases.
The appeal in the high court is being made but we have almost exhausted ourself .and I have begun to believe in what the judge told me in closed door counselling ---give her what she wants and buy peace.
what are the options before me and how long can this last in the high court. And above all is there any way to stop this prejudiced/ corrupt judge from spoiling more lives .
Regards
