Refusal To Wear 'Sakha & Sindoor' Signify A Woman's Refusal To Accept Her Marriage: Gauhati HC Allows Divorce Petition [Read Order]

While allowing the matrimonial appeal preferred by a husband against the order of a Family Court dismissing his application for divorce, the Gauhati High Court has held inter alia, that refusal to wear 'sakha and sindoor' are indicative of the wife's refusal to accept her marriage.The bench of Chief Justice Ajai Lamba and Justice Soumitra Saikia observed that under the custom of...