Husband gets fake wife’s yes to separate
13 Aug 2012 7:17 AM IST
A case of cheating and fraud by a man who wanted to obtain a fast divorce has shocked the Delhi high court. The husband got the divorce from a matrimonial court using everything fake – a fake wife, a fake lawyer and a fake notary.
In his zeal to obtain a prompt decree of divorce, Sarabjit Singh, instead of filing the petition for divorce on any of the grounds under the Hindu Marriage Act, resorted to the fraudulent practice by forging the signatures of the respondent wife on the petitions and affidavits, bringing an imposter before the matrimonial court instead of the actual wife and produced a fake advocate to achieve his purpose, so that he could marry another woman.
Singh filed the joint petition in the court through a common lawyer Ranjna Kaur. The lawyer, was untraceable later and there was no record found of her. Even the oath commissioner, before whom the affidavits of the parties were sworn, could not be traced, as the necessary registration number and other particulars were missing in the seal of the oath commissioner. The photographs of the wife in both the petitions were tampered with and the photographs of the wife were pasted after removing the earlier photographs of her imposter.
And, when this deceit by Singh came to the notice of the wife, she did everything to expose her husband in the court. She approached the Delhi high court first, saying that her husband had committed a serious fraud not only upon the wife but upon the court as well and then he was trying to legitimise his illegal and fraudulent acts. The high court asked the trial court to recall its earlier decree of divorce.
But, Singh did not stop there. He challenged the order of the trial court in the high court, which tore apart the defence of the husband in its judgement and refused to alter the trial court order and also imposed a cost of Rs 2 lakh on him.
Observing that the fraud on the court makes a mockery of our pious judicial system, Justice Kailash Gambhir also issued directions for the matrimonial courts to follow: 'The appellant husband has thrown to the winds all norms by affixing the photograph of some other lady in place of the respondent wife in both the petitions. It is quite evident that the appellant husband is not alone in such fraudulent acts and certainly there is some legal brain who must have encouraged the appellant husband in committing such murky and fraudulent acts to pollute the streams of justice.'
In his zeal to obtain a prompt decree of divorce, Sarabjit Singh, instead of filing the petition for divorce on any of the grounds under the Hindu Marriage Act, resorted to the fraudulent practice by forging the signatures of the respondent wife on the petitions and affidavits, bringing an imposter before the matrimonial court instead of the actual wife and produced a fake advocate to achieve his purpose, so that he could marry another woman.
Singh filed the joint petition in the court through a common lawyer Ranjna Kaur. The lawyer, was untraceable later and there was no record found of her. Even the oath commissioner, before whom the affidavits of the parties were sworn, could not be traced, as the necessary registration number and other particulars were missing in the seal of the oath commissioner. The photographs of the wife in both the petitions were tampered with and the photographs of the wife were pasted after removing the earlier photographs of her imposter.
And, when this deceit by Singh came to the notice of the wife, she did everything to expose her husband in the court. She approached the Delhi high court first, saying that her husband had committed a serious fraud not only upon the wife but upon the court as well and then he was trying to legitimise his illegal and fraudulent acts. The high court asked the trial court to recall its earlier decree of divorce.
But, Singh did not stop there. He challenged the order of the trial court in the high court, which tore apart the defence of the husband in its judgement and refused to alter the trial court order and also imposed a cost of Rs 2 lakh on him.
Observing that the fraud on the court makes a mockery of our pious judicial system, Justice Kailash Gambhir also issued directions for the matrimonial courts to follow: 'The appellant husband has thrown to the winds all norms by affixing the photograph of some other lady in place of the respondent wife in both the petitions. It is quite evident that the appellant husband is not alone in such fraudulent acts and certainly there is some legal brain who must have encouraged the appellant husband in committing such murky and fraudulent acts to pollute the streams of justice.'
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