Following what seemed like a hilarious (not necessarily good or bad, but hilarious) ruling by a family court judge, I tried googling to see how faaar this was from the mark...
Came across a couple of recent cases and surprisingly-enough, these real-life family-court judges seemed so like our reel-life RJN judge! 😆
A case ruling by a family court judge -
The couple married in April 1999 and had a daughter in May 2000. Ajay was posted to Port Blair on April 17, 2006. But Anjali refused to join him and in May filed a petition for maintenance and told the family court that Ajay was ill-treating her. Ajay subsequently filed for divorce. Hearing an appeal by the husband against the family court's dismissal of his divorce plea, a division bench of Justices P B Majmudar and Anoop Mohta asked the wife why she could not join her husband. "You should go to him. When Sita could join Ram in vanvas, then why can't you go?" asked Justice Majmudar.
Another case ruling by a family court judge -
Judges were successful in convincing a Pune couple to remain united when the appeal against a family court order came up for hearing. The family court had dismissed husband Suresh's plea for divorce on grounds of cruelty because his wife Smita Joshi was not willing to have a relationship with him. At a previous hearing, the high court had told the couple to stay together for a week. On Tuesday, Smita told the judges that she is happy and Ajay "has entered the bedroom".
Justice Majmudar riposted, "Obviously, only he will enter the bedroom. He's your husband." The judges directed the couple to continue their "probation" for further four weeks,
"Try to win the hearts of each other during the summer period. Go outside Pune city. Go to Mahabaleshwar," said Justice Majmudar. But then Ajay had a complaint. "She's out of home all day," he said.
Smita's advocate told the court that she was undergoing computer training. "Leave computer training aside. This training is more important than computer training," said Justice Majmudar.
P.s. On another note, I also came across a few disturbing cases in India where the kidnapped girl was forced to stay with husband and continue life as normal... as in many domestic-abuse cases too...
On a lighter note, there are silly couples too... A 28-year-old woman has approached the family court seeking divorce saying that she can not trust her husband after her failed to announce their marriage on Facebook. The Telugu couple had an arranged marriage just two months ago and the case was filed in the jurisdiction of an Aurangabad court where the women is thought to live.
Her husband told the court that he had forgotten to update his status, but the judge has given the two parties six months to undergo counselling. 😕
'The Hyderabadi husband had told the judge that he was so busy post marriage with family and his furniture business that he really had no time to check his FB or change his status.
'He was willing to do so now or even de-activate his account, however, the woman was not keen to continue with the marriage and she says her husband might be doing things behind her back and she couldn't trust him.'