Delhi Couple Gets Divorce 24 Years After They Filed Papers, Court Blames Litigants For Delay

In a telling example of how judicial delays cripple personal life, a man has been granted divorce 24 years after he and his estranged wife separated.

Last week, Delhi high court finally dissolved the marriage that took place in 1988 but was rocky from the start, with the wife staying with her husband only intermittently till she left the matrimonial home in 1995 for good.

Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw saw merit in the claim of the beleagured husband that there was nothing left for the marriage to survive and termed it as “unfortunate that the parties married as far back as 1988 i.e. 31 years back and living separately since 1995 i.e. for the last 24 years have had to litigate about something as personal as these disputes for the last 24 years, and with uncertainty as to their marital status”.