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UK Divorce Stayed, As Bombay High Court Asks Couple To Approach Indian Court
The wife had moved court seeking an order for staying the divorce proceedings by the husband pending before the Family Court, Manchester, United Kingdom (UK) and also sought an injunction against husband from proceeding with the said case.
The Bombay High Court on Tuesday stayed divorce proceedings initiated by an estranged husband against his wife, an Indian national, filed in the United Kingdom, on the grounds that the couple had married in Mumbai and were governed under the Hindu Marriage Act, to file proceedings only in India.