I had applied for divorce after 6 months of marriage on the ground of mental cruelty as she accused me of adultery and impotent and also harassed by her parents. Case was filed and registered by ADJ (Sr. Divn). But we did not file application to take leave of the court to file divorce within 1 year. Notices were issued to wife but returned unserved. After 11 months 25 days, case was transferred to Family court and Family court issued notice by RPAD and was served and wife appeared by 16 months of marriage and the case was contested by both parties for next 5 years living separately. In the next 5 years, wife filed RCR/125/498/DV agains me and my relatives. After providing all evidence on divorce and RCR, the family court ordered as below.
1. Divorce - dismissed. Reason 1: No cruelty was observed within 6 months of marriage although filing of cases etc was happed after filing divorce. Reason 2: Application seeking leave was not filed for filing divorce within 1 year.
2. RCR - Dismissed. Reason: Wife has filed so many cases against husband and his relatives and has deposed in 498 case to punish husband. Relationship between husband and wife have deteriorated lot and it is not appropriate to forcefully order RCR.
QUERY: What is the recourse available to me to get divorce. Though section 14 says that "it shall not be competent for any court to entertain any petition for dissolution of a marriage by a decree of divorce, unless at the date of the presentation of the petition one year has elapsed since the date of the marriage", the court has entertained my divorce case for sweet 6 years and dismissed the same on the ground on which it should not have registered the divorce case.
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