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Documents citing Sirigiri Pullaiah vs Sirigiri Rushingamma on 15 February, 1962

Smt. Rohini Kumari vs Narendra Singh on 5 October, 1968

16. The learned counsel for the appellant next relied on another Division Bench decision of the Andhra Pradesh High Court in the case of S. Pullaiah v. S. Rushingamma, AIR 1963 Andh Pra 323. The case which went in appeal was one under Section 13(1)(i) and Section 10(1)(a) of the Hindu Marriage Act for dissolution of marriage between the appellant and the respondent or in the alternative for a decree for judicial separation. After referring to the right of a wife to claim separate residence and maintenance from her husband given to her under the Hindu Married Women's Right to Separate Residence and Maintenance Act (Act 19 of 1946) as well as Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956, the Court proceeded to pose the following question:
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Rohini Kumari vs Narendra Singh on 2 December, 1971

In Sirigiri Pullaiah v. Srigiri Rushingamma(1) it was held that the effect of the two afforesaid Acts was that a wife was entitled to claim separate maintenance and residence from her husband if he should marry again. If the wife could claim maintenance on the ground that the husband had remarried it could not be said that she had deserted her husband without reasonable cause within the meaning of s. 10 (1) (a) of the Act. In that case a petition had been filed for judicial separation under s. 10 (1) (a) of the Act. The husband had taken a second wife and she was entitled to live separately and claim maintenance. The husband, therefore, could not claim judicial separation on the ground of desertion. The husband had taken second wife several years before starting proceedings under the Act and some times after the wife had obtained a decree for maintenance. The High Court was of the view that the second marriage of the husband was a good ground for the first wife to live separately and that was a justifiable reason for doing so. There would thus be no scope for the argument that desertion was without reasonable cause within the meaning of s. 10(1)
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