RAJ RANI Vs. RAKESH KUMAR GOYAL

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THE marriage between the petitioner Raj Rani and the respondent Rakesh Kumar Goyal was solemnised on 17.7.1987. During the subsistence of their marriage, a female child Charu was born. For reasons of disturbance in matrimonial harmony, respondent Rakesh Kumar Goyal filed a petition for divorce under Section 13 of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 (hereinafter referred to as 'the Act') on 20.7.1989. The aforesaid petition was converted into a petition for divorce by mutual consent under Section 13-B of the Act by a joint application preferred by the petitioner and the respondent.

(2.) DURING the course of proceedings under Section 13-B of the Act, statement of respondent Rakesh Kumar Goyal was recorded on 22.9.1995. Relevant extract of the same, which is relevant for the purposes of the controversy raised through this petition between the parties is being extracted hereunder :-

(3.) SINCE the respondent did not honour the undertaking given by him in the statement extracted above, the petitioner has approached this Court through the instant petition asserting that the respondent had intentionally and deliberately played foul and had thereby rendered himself liable to be punished under the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971.