In 2016, a trial court dismissed Omar Abdullah's divorce petition, ruling that he had been unable to prove an "irretrievable breakdown of the marriage" and his claims of "cruelty or desertion."
The engineer's arduous divorce case started in the Bhopal Court and subsequently traversed through the Vidisha Family Court, the Family Court of Gwalior, the High Court, and ultimately reached the Supreme Court.
The Jyoti Maurya case came to the fore in June this year, when a video of Alok Maurya, a Class VI employee in the Panchayati Raj department in the Pratapgarh district of Uttar Pradesh came to light.
This ruling by the Mumbai court has attracted attention for addressing the importance of pet dogs fulfilling emotional needs following the end of relationships.
Allahabad High Court held that a divorced Muslim woman is entitled to maintenance from her ex-husband for the rest of her life until she remarries and not only till the completion of Iddat period.