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S.Ruby Celsia vs P.Selvakumar
2025 Latest Caselaw 491 Mad

Citation : 2025 Latest Caselaw 491 Mad
Judgement Date : 4 June, 2025

Madras High Court

S.Ruby Celsia vs P.Selvakumar on 4 June, 2025

                                                                                         C.M.A(MD)No.1628 of 2024


                           BEFORE THE MADURAI BENCH OF MADRAS HIGH COURT

                                            Reserved on :                28.04.2025

                                          Pronounced on :               04.06.2025

                                                           CORAM:

                                  THE HONOURABLE MRS.JUSTICE L.VICTORIA GOWRI

                                             C.M.A(MD)No.1628 of 2024
                                                               and
                                            C.M.P.(MD)No.17354 of 2024


                    S.Ruby Celsia                                 ... Appellant / Respondent


                                                                Vs.


                    P.Selvakumar                                  ... Respondent / Petitioner

                    PRAYER: Civil Miscellaneous Appeal filed under Section 55 of the
                    Divorce Act, 1869, read with Section 104 of Civil Procedure Code, 1908,
                    to set aside the Judgment and Decree dated 07.11.2024 made in
                    I.D.O.P.No.181 of 2023 on the file of the learned Additional District
                    Court (FTC), Tenkasi.

                                          For Appellant            : Mr.M.Shemadaniel

                                          For Respondent           : Mr.D.Srinivasaragavan

                                                         JUDGMENT

This civil miscellaneous appeal is filed by the appellant,

challenging the order passed by the learned Additional District Judge's

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Court (FTC), Tenkasi in I.D.O.P.No.181 of 2023.

2. For the sake of convenience, the parties here to are mentioned

as per their ranking before the Learned Trial Court.

3. The husband was the petitioner before the learned Trial Court

and the respondent is his wife. The respondent wife has preferred this

Civil Miscellaneous Appeal challenging the order passed in I.D.O.P.No.

181 of 2023 dated 07.11.2024. The petitioner husband filed a petition

for divorce under Section 10(1)(vii) and 10(1)(x) of Indian Divorce Act,

1869, seeking to dissolve the marriage solemnized between him and the

respondent wife on 09.11.2018.

4. The gist of the case as averred in the petition for divorce is

as follows:

(i) The marriage between the petitioner husband and the

respondent wife was conducted on 09.11.2018 at Punitha Arulappar

Church, Avudaiyanoor village in the presence of elders and relatives

according to the Christian rites and practices. The marriage was an

arranged marriage. Thereafter, the petitioner and the respondent

together registered their marriage on 31.12.2018 at Pavoorchatram Sub

Registry.

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(ii) The petitioner is an Engineer, and he is working as a Software

Engineer. The respondent is an Engineer who holds a Bachelor of

Technology (Mechanical), a Master of Technology and a doctoral degree

in Engineering. She is presently employed as an Assistant Professor at

K.S. Rengaswamy Engineering College, K.S.R.Education Nagar,

Thiruchengode Taluk, Namakkal District. From the very instance of

marriage, the respondent was not interested in leading a happy family

life. She had declared that she had no belief in the family system and

also refused to live in harmony with the petitioner. Though the

petitioner was patiently handling her with the fond hope that the

respondent would learn the nuances of marriage in due course of time,

he suffered untold mental agony because of the respondent's attitude.

Very often, the respondent left from her matrimonial home to her

maternal home.

(iii) The respondent's father citing the prevailing family problems

in the petitioner's family, fraudulently instigated the petitioner to

execute a settlement deed with respect to his properties in favor of the

respondent. In this regard, the petitioner has filed a suit for recovery of

property in O.S. No. 344 of 2023 on the file of the Principal Subordinate

Judge's Court at Tenkasi and the same is pending. While being so, on

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10.11.2021, the respondent permanently left her matrimonial home and

settled in her maternal home. All the advices and efforts taken by the

petitioner for a reconciliation, proved futile. In fact, the petitioner's effort

to give psychological counselling through a Psychologist to the

respondent also proved futile.

(iv) The respondent categorically declared that she is not ready to

live with him even for namesake. Shocked by the revelations of the

respondent, the petitioner is suffering from a mental and physical

trauma that he is not even able to carry forward his day-to-day affairs of

life normally. The respondent's deeds and activities are legally and

socially unacceptable and she has been living away from him,

separated, for a period of more than two years in her parents' home. As

a result of which, the petitioner has lost hope and a mindset has been

imbibed in him to such an extent that he could no longer live with her

anymore. Hence, this petition for divorce has become necessary and the

petitioner has filed this petition for divorce seeking to dissolve the

marriage on two grounds namely, cruelty and non-consummation of

marriage.

5. Gist of the counter-affidavit filed by the respondent's wife

in I.D.O.P No. 181 of 2023:

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(i) Refuting all the allegations set forth by the petitioner in his

petition for divorce, the counter affidavit has been filed. All the

allegations of frequenting to her maternal home, leaving the petitioner

in their matrimonial home is strongly denied by the respondent wife. It

was contended by the respondent that the petitioner and the

respondent lived together for a period of one week with the respondent

in her village after marriage. Thereafter, for a period of two weeks, the

respondent accompanied the petitioner to Bangalore wherein he was

employed. While being so, the respondent was selected to pursue Ph.D.,

at Mepco Schlenk Engineering College, Sivakasi.

(ii) It was only with the permission of the petitioner, the

respondent joined in her Ph.D., research course and stayed in the

Sivakasi Mepco College and completed her Ph.D., course. Even during

the said six-months period of time, the petitioner used to visit the

respondent in her quarters and stay with her every weekend. After

completion of her research, the respondent and the petitioner lived

together for a period of one and a half years at Bangalore where the

petitioner was employed. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the petitioner

was compelled to work from home, as a result of which, both the

petitioner and the respondent returned to their native and arranged a

rented accommodation at Pavoorchatram village and from May 2021

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until November 2021, they lived in the said village house.

(iii) While being so, it was only at the instance of the petitioner,

the respondent went to her maternal home for taking proper treatment

for begetting a child during December 2021 and left with no other

option, on his compulsion, the respondent had gone to her parent's

house. However, after this, the petitioner did not contact the

respondent. After the hectic efforts taken by the elders of the

respondent's family, the petitioner voluntarily took the respondent along

with him during December 2022 to his Pavoorchatram house, wherein

they lived together for a period of two months.

(iv) In the meanwhile, the petitioner was selected as a Lecturer in

an Engineering College at Thiruchengode. It was only because of the

fact that the petitioner severed all contacts with the respondent during

this period of time, the respondent was left with no other option rather

joining in the said job at Thiruchengode. The allegation that the

respondent's father had instigated the petitioner to execute a settlement

deed in favor of the respondent with respect to his properties are sternly

refuted. It was further submitted that the petitioner himself had

executed the same out of his own will and volition.

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(v) In a similar manner, the respondent has also executed a

settlement deed in favor of the petitioner out of her own volition. Having

accepted the fact that the petitioner has filed a civil suit with respect to

the properties settled by him in favor of the respondent, the respondent

had clarified in her counter in Para 3 that she has appeared in the

aforesaid civil suit and is conducting the same legally.

(vi) The claim of the petitioner of having given psychological

counselling to the respondent is unnecessary and the allegations that

the respondent had permanently deserted the petitioner for no reason

is also strongly denied. It is only for the purpose of living together with

the petitioner, the marriage had been conducted. However, it is only the

petitioner who failed to conduct the matrimonial life with due respect,

love, and affection. During the period when the respondent lived with

the petitioner, he had imposed several conditions of restricting her from

contacting her parents and using social media as well as computer. This

had caused grave impact in her mind, as a result of which, she

continuously suffered from depression and encountered unnecessary

worries.

(vii) When the respondent was taken back by the petitioner at the

instance of the elders of the respondent's family during December 2022,

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it was the petitioner who demanded money to a tune of Rs.4,00,000/-

(Rupees Four Lakhs only) and a car worth Rs.2,00,000/- (Rupees Two

Lakhs only). Not willing to heed to the petitioner's petition for divorce,

the respondent had required the Learned Trial Court to dismiss the

petition for divorce filed by the petitioner.

6. Two witnesses were examined on the side of the petitioner as

PW-1 and PW-2 by the Learned Trial Court and Exhibits P1 to P7 were

marked. The respondent wife was examined as RW-1 and exhibits R1

series, Exhibit R1 to R3 were marked on the side of the respondent.

7. On the basis of the evidence deposed, documents marked, and

the arguments put forth by the respective parties, the Learned Trial

Court giving way to the evidence deposed by PW-2, one Dr. Ayyappan,

who claimed to have been running a mental hospital by name and style

of Thanvanthri Hospital at Tirunelveli, came to a conclusion that the

respondent had suffered a mental illness, namely, Paranoid

Schizophrenia, and concluded that it was the respondent who was not

inclined to live together with the petitioner and she had conducted her

matrimony without any love and affection and the Learned Trial Court

came to a conclusion that the petitioner and the respondent did not live

a happy married life and most of their marital life was led only in

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isolation.

8. Further, the Learned Trial Court also concluded that the

respondent had intentionally avoided to consummate the marriage and

the allegations leveled against the petitioner by the respondent itself

would show that the petitioner has been subjected to cruelty. Further,

the Learned Trial Court observed that the respondent had behaved

violently and hysterically in an aggressive manner exposing anger and

hatred towards the petitioner and the behavioral changes of the

respondent would have obviously caused mental agony to the petitioner

which could very well be perceived from the evidence let in the trial by

the respective parties and concluded that the case is a fit case for grant

of divorce by dissolving the marriage which was held between the

petitioner and the respondent on the ground of non-consummation and

mental cruelty.

9. It is a settled proposition of law that while considering the facts

in issue, the primordial duty of the Trial Court is to substantiate the

evidence as to the facts in issue which were properly pleaded by the

respective parties. Without pleadings, the evidence deposed beyond the

scope of those facts which are already pleaded cannot be taken as

substantial facts to decide the facts in issue. The Honourable Supreme

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Court in the case of Ms.Trojan & Co Ltd vs R. M. N. N. Nagappa

Chettiyar1 has held as under:

“It is well settled that the decision of a case cannot be based

on grounds outside the pleadings of the parties and it is the case

pleaded that has to be found. Without an amendment of the plaint,

the Court was not entitled to grant the relief, not asked for and no

prayer was ever made to amend the plaint so as to incorporate in it

an alternative case.”

10. It is the considered view of this Court that though the Court

has very wide discretion in granting relief, however, the Court cannot

ignore and keep aside the principles governing grant of relief and resort

to grant relief beyond the scope of the facts in issue which were pleaded

by the respective parties, more particularly in matrimonial cases. In the

instant case, the petitioner husband had laid a petition for divorce

under the grounds of having willfully refused to consummate the

marriage and cruelty.

11. For the sake of convenience, section 10(1)(vii) and section

10(1)(x) of Indian Divorce Act, 1869, is extracted as follows:

“10.Grounds for dissolution of Marriage- (1) Any marriage soleminzed, whether before or after the commencement of the Indian

1 AIR 1953 SC 235

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Divorce (Amendment) Act, 2001 (51 of 2001), may, on a petition

presented to the District Court either by the husband or the wife, be

dissolved on the ground that since the solemnization of the

marriage, the respondent-

(vii) has willfully refused to consummate the marriage and

the marriage has not therefore been consummated;

(x) has treated the petitioner with such cruelty as to cause a

reasonable apprehension in the mind of the petitioner that it would

be harmful or injurious for the petitioner to live with the

respondent.”

12. The marriage between the petitioner and the respondent was

held on 09.11.2018. Though it is pleaded in para 4 of the petition for

divorce that, from the very instance of the marriage, the respondent had

been reluctant to nurture a cordial matrimonial life, she went to the

extent of informing the petitioner that she was not interested or inclined

towards leading a matrimonial life and she went to the extent of telling

that she did not have any faith in living a cordial matrimonial life with

him. In para 5 of the petition, the petitioner had claimed that the

respondent frequented to her maternal home very often, and in para 6,

he had made it clear that finally on 10.11.2021, the respondent had

separated the petitioner permanently and left for her maternal home.

However, except for pleading that the respondent had informed him that

she is neither interested nor inclined nor has faith in a normal

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matrimonial relationship, nowhere in any part of the petition for

divorce, the petitioner had stated that the marriage was not

consummated.

13. Per contra, the counter affidavit filed by the respondent wife

itself commences in para 1 of the counter affidavit categorically refusing

and denying the contention set forth in para 4 of the petition for divorce

where the petitioner husband had claimed that the respondent had

informed him that she was neither inclined nor interested nor had any

faith in the matrimonial relationship. It is specifically denied in para 1

of the counter affidavit filed by the respondent that such an averment

made by the petitioner husband is fully incorrect and false. In para 2 of

the counter affidavit, she had categorically contended that the

respondent had lived with the petitioner and had elaborated in the rest

of the portions of the counter affidavit, the instances during which the

petitioner and the respondent lived together and the efforts taken by the

petitioner in encouraging her in pursuing a research studies and

completing Ph.D., after her matrimony.

14. However, in para 6 of her counter affidavit, she had also

pleaded that lastly when she was taken back to her matrimonial home

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in December 2022 at the instance of the elders, the petitioner had

treated her with unkindness by demanding more money and a car

worth Rs.2,00,000/- (Rupees Two Lakhs only). However, she had

required the learned Trial Court to dismiss the petition for divorce.

When a petition for divorce has been laid under section 10(1)(vii) of the

Indian Divorce Act, 1869, it is pertinent to provide sufficient proof of

non-consummation of marriage to obtain divorce under the said

ground.

15. No instances of willfully refusing to cooperate in

consummating the marriage has been put forth either in the pleadings

or in the evidence by the petitioner. The petitioner has failed entirely to

prove non-consummation of the marriage. Pleadings are wholly silent

on that point and no specific instance of any wilful refusal by the

respondent to consummate was pleaded or proved. A veil pleading of the

petitioner that the respondent had informed him at the very instance of

the marriage that she is neither inclined nor interested nor had any

faith as to the matrimonial relationship would not strengthen his

ground of non-consummation. However, a careful perusal of the

pleadings, documents, and the materials available on record, more

particularly, the R1 series document marked by the respondent wife as

RW-1 while deposing her evidence demonstrates a very cordial and

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warm relationship between the petitioner husband and the respondent

wife, for atleast two years after theri wedding on 09.11.2018. Those

photographs directly controvert the petitioner's assertion that the

marriage was never consummated.

16. The moments of intimacy which are mirrored in the exhibit R1

series photograph will resonate the fact that after marrying the

respondent on 09.11.2018 at least for a period of two years the

petitioner and the respondent had led a happy matrimonial life without

too many complications. Exhibit R1 series would defy the claim of the

petitioner husband that the marriage was not consummated. Having

lived together for at least two to three years before laying the petition for

divorce, the claim of the petitioner husband that the marriage was not

at all consummated without any substantial piece of evidence could not

be accepted and the said claim should be negated.

17. The other ground on which the divorce has been sought for is

the ground of cruelty. For the purpose of establishing the factum of

cruelty, the learned Trial Court had given weightage to the evidence

deposed by one Dr.Thiru.Ayyappan who deposed his evidence as PW-2.

It is ridiculous as to how the learned Trial Court relied upon the

evidence deposed by PW-2 without marking even a single document

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which would substantiate the fact that the respondent had suffered

from Paranoid Schizophrenia.

18. That apart, this Court is shocked by the way the Trial has

been conducted by the learned Trial Court in admitting the evidence of

PW-2 that the respondent suffered from Paranoid Schizophrenia when

the said aspect was not at all pleaded by the petitioner in any portion of

his petition for divorce. What the petitioner had pleaded, more

particularly, in paragraph 3 of his petition for divorce, is that the

respondent had left her matrimonial home permanently on 10.11.2021

to her parents house, despite the advice rendered by the elders of both

sides. It is only in this point, the petitioner had pleaded in paragraph 6

of his petition for divorce that, even he had taken efforts by taking the

respondent to a psychologist for the purpose of giving her a

psychological counselling and the same proved futile. Nowhere in the

pleadings in the petition for divorce, the petitioner had claimed that the

respondent had suffered from a psychiatric condition, namely, Paranoid

Schizophrenia, and that she was treated by a Psychiatrist for the said

mental health condition.

19. This Court is very particular in distinguishing between the

aspect of Psychology and Psychiatry. Though Psychologists and

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Psychiatrists work in the mental health area, their approaches and

qualifications obviously differ. Many Psychologists are qualified either in

M.A.,/M.Sc., Psychology or MSW (Master of Social Work). On the other

hand, Psychiatrists are qualified medical practitioners who prescribe

medicines and also treat the mental patients. Psychologists normally

conduct counsellings in matters of depression and incompatibility with

any aspect of life. On the other hand, the Psychiatrists are medical

practitioners who treat mental patients with proper diagnosis and

medications. In the instant case, having pleaded that the respondent

was subjected to a counselling process with a Psychologist later at the

time of deposing evidence, the petitioner had went to the extent of

deposing his evidence narrating that the respondent was subjected to

treatment in the mental hospital and he also managed to examine one

Dr. Ayyappan as PW-2 in which the PW-2 went to the extent of deposing

evidence that he had treated the respondent for at least seven days for

Paranoid Schizophrenia.

20. This Court is of the considered view that the learned Trial

Court ought erred in admitting and acting upon the evidence that lies

outside the scope of the parties pleadings. The petitioner never pleaded

that the respondent suffered from Paranoid Schizophrenia. Yet PW-2

was allowed to testify to that effect and the Trial Court relied on that

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testimony to brand on otherwise healthy woman as mentally ill, without

a shred of documentary corroboration. The Hon'ble Apex Court has well

settled in Ms.Trojan & Co Ltd vs R. M. N. N. Nagappa Chettiyar's

case that, a Court cannot adjudicate on matters not pleaded not grant

relief on a case not set out in the pleadings. Those principles apply even

greater rigour in matrimonial litigation. While the Court enjoys wide

discretion in moulding reliefs, it cannot transgress the boundaries of

the pleadings or the substative law. Section 10(1)(vii) and Section 10(1)

(x) of the Indian Divorce Act, 1869, invoked by the petitioner require

strict proof respectively of (a) wilful refusal to consummate and (b)

cruelty. No such proof has been adduced. In the absence of any proper

medical records in this regard, the Trial Court ought not to have

admitted the evidence of PW-2 at all. Psychologists are those who focus

on therapy and counselling to help individuals with behavioral and

emotional issues, Psychiatrists are the medical practitioners who can

diagnose mental disorders, prescribe medication and provide medical

treatments. Though the respondent had admitted in her counter

affidavit that she suffered mental depression due to her incompatibility

with the petitioner in her matrimonial life, she had categorically denied

in her evidence that she suffered any mental health problems.

21. Considering the nature of allegations which has been put

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forth by way of evidence as against the respondent both by PW-1 and

PW-2 that the respondent suffered from Paranoid Schizophrenia, this

Court, by order dated 20.03.2025, required the said PW-2, namely, Dr.

B. Ayyappan, Thanvanthri Hospital, North Bypass Road, Vannarpettai,

Tirunelveli-627 003, to appear before this Court on 27.03.2025 at 3.30

P.M in the chamber, requiring him to produce the complete original

medical records pertaining to the respondent wife, namely, Mrs. Ruby

Celsia, who was claimed to have been admitted on 27.05.2021 and was

taking treatment there at and discharged on 03.06.2021, in a sealed

cover. Interestingly the said doctor, namely, Dr. B. Ayyappan, appeared

on 27.03.2025 without any medical records and submitted before this

Court that he is handicapped with medical records and he do not have

any medical records pertaining to the respondent in his hospital.

22. In the absence of any medical records which would

substantiate that the respondent was treated in Thanwantri Hospital,

the manner in which the Trial Court had conducted the Trial by

admitting the evidence of PW-2 and allowing him to depose evidence

elaborating the mental health condition of the respondent to that extent

that she suffered from Paranoid Schizophrenia and that too without any

proper documentary evidence, I am of the considered view that, the

learned Trial Court failed in dispensation of justice by painting a normal

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woman as a Paranoid Schizophrenic patient giving way to the society to

annihilate the respondent questioning her credibility and personality

posing serious threat even to her future livelihood and employment.

23. It is an admitted fact that the respondent is an Engineer and

she had completed her B.Tech., M.Tech., as well as she is a doctorate in

Engineering. That apart, she is also serving as an Assistant Professor in

an Engineering College at Thiruchengode. The only allegation which has

been set forth by the respondent as against the petitioner is that, he

had subjected her to certain restrictions that she should not frequently

converse with her parents and that she should not use her computer,

as a result of which, she suffered mental agony and depression. She has

also pleaded in her counter affidavit that after rejoining her husband at

the instance of the elders in December 2022, the petitioner had

demanded a car as well as cash of Rs.4,00,000/- (Rupees Four Lakhs

only) from her parents.

24. However, the learned Trial Court went on to observe that the

allegations leveled by the respondent against the petitioner itself would

show that the petitioner was subjected to cruelty and that the

respondent suffering from Paranoid Schizophrenia might also have had

a grave implication on the mental and living condition of the petitioner

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and proceeded to conclude that the marriage was not consummated

between the petitioner and the respondent, and the petitioner had

suffered cruelty in the hands of the respondent and allowed the petition

for divorce.

25. However, I am of the considered view that the learned Trial

Court gravely erred by relying upon the evidence deposed by PW-2

which was not based on any material evidence, in the absence of any

document marked before the learned Trial Court. That apart, this Court

has confirmed the same by requiring the said PW-2 who claimed himself

to be a doctor who treated the respondent for Paranoid Schizophrenia to

produce the entire original medical records concerning the respondents

alleged hospitalisation. In response to the same, the said PW-2 duly

appeared before this Court only to clarify before this Court that his

evidence before the learned Trial Court was without any material

evidence and that he was handicapped by the absence of any relevant

documents. His failure to produce the relevant medical records for my

perusal itself would render his testimony as PW-2 inadmissible and the

Trial Court's reliance on it is a grave error.

26. Given (a) the total lack of admissible evidence of non-

consummation (b) the absence of proof of cruelty, and (c) the procedural

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illegality of relying on unpleaded and unproved allegations of Paranoid

Scheozphrnia, the impugned decree cannot stand. Accordingly, I do not

find any merit in the order passed by the learned Trial Court and hence,

the same has to be interfered necessarily and accordingly, the order

passed by the learned Trial Court is hereby set aside. To conclude, the

available record underscores that, in adjudicating disputed facts, the

Trial Court's “primordial duty” is to confine itself to the issues framed

on the pleadings and to base its findings on admissible evidence alone.

Evidence adduced beyond the scope of the pleadings is not “material”

within the meaning of the law of evidence and must be discarded. The

Trial Court's departure from that duty in a sensitive matrimonial case

mandates appellate correction.

27. With the above observations, this Civil Miscellaneous Appeal

is allowed. There shall be no order as to costs. Consequently, connected

miscellaneous petition is closed.

04.06.2025

NCC : Yes / No Index : Yes / No Internet : Yes Sml

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To The Additional District Court (FTC), Tenkasi.

Copy to The Section Officer, Vernacular Records, Madurai Bench of Madras High Court, Madurai.

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L.VICTORIA GOWRI, J.,

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04.06.2025

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