The Family Court of Delhi has granted a divorce to Indian player Shikhar Dhawan, claiming cruelty as the main justification. After an 11-year marriage and an agreement that they had not been residing together since August 8, 2020, they made this choice. The divorce was mutually consented to, according to the court’s judge, Harish Kumar.
Indian player Shikhar Dhawan has been granted a divorce by the Family Court of Delhi, with cruelty listed as the main justification. The court’s decision follows an agreement between the parties that they had not been cohabitating as husband and wife since August 8, 2020, and it comes after an 11-year marriage.
There can be no question that the two of them had mutually consented to get a divorce, that their marriage was fundamentally over long ago, and that they haven’t been living together as a couple since August 8, 2020, according to Family Court Judge Harish Kumar.
Judge Kumar claims that “Respondent’s/estranged spouse’s intentional decision to leave this matter uncontested additionally demonstrates her desire that the court issue a decree of divorced even at the cost of holding her guilty of the matrimonial offence.”
The court took into account the fact that Shikhar Dhawan’s ex-wife had already received favorable verdicts from the Federal Circuit and Family Court in Australia, which seemed to strengthen her position in defying earlier court orders. As a result, the court decided in Dhawan’s favor, holding that Section 13(1)(a) of the Hindu Marriage Act entitled him to a judgment of divorce based on cruelty.
The marriage, which was celebrated on December 30, 2012, in a Gurdwara on Nelson Mandela Marg in Vasant Kunj, New Delhi, is effectively dissolved by the ruling.
Shikhar Dhawan also filed for divorce and requested full custody of his young kid, citing worries for the child’s welfare as a result of the respondent’s activities. Due to earlier court judgments in Australia concerning the child’s custody, the custody problem, however, proved to be complicated.
The youngster is an Australian citizen and is in Australia, the court declared in response to this issue. Any order or judgment can only be properly carried out on foreign soil if the foreign state apparatus is willing to do so, either voluntarily or as required by international responsibilities.
Subject to the child’s academic schedule, the court ordered the estranged wife to bring the child to India for visitation purposes during school breaks, including overnight stays with Shikhar Dhawan and his family. Additionally, with early notice, unsupervised contacts between the child and Dhawan were allowed in Australia.
In his defense, Shikhar Dhawan asserted that “the petitioners bought three real estate properties within Australia from his own money but was compelled by the defendant to make her the 99 percent owner in one of them and joint owner of the other two properties.” He claimed that his wife had confiscated a sizable portion of the net selling revenues from a single asset and the entire net sale proceeds from another, as well as demanding that the title of the remaining property be transferred to her.
With this divorce decision, an 11-year marriage comes to an end, providing some closure to a difficult and emotionally taxing legal battle.