A division bench of Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva and Justice Vikas Mahajan rejected the petition moved by Omar Abdullah challenging a family court order passed on August 30, 2016, dismissing his plea for divorce.
Omar Abdullah and Payal Abdullah got married on September 01, 1994. They have been living separately since the year 2009. They have two sons.
Refusing to grant divorce to Omar Abdullah, the bench said that it finds no infirmity in the family court order which refused to grant him divorce.
The court agreed with the family court order that the allegations of cruelty by Omar Abdullah against Payal Abdullah were vague. The bench said that Omar failed to prove any act of cruelty, whether physical or mental.
“We find no merit in the appeal. The same is dismissed,” the bench said. It was Omar Abdullah’s case that his marriage with Payal Abdullab had “irretroevably broken down”.
The family court had also said that Omar Abdullah could not prove his claims of cruelty or desertion, which were also the grounds alleged by him for grant of divorce.
Omar Abdullah claimed that his marriage had broken down irretrievably and that he had not enjoyed conjugal relationship since the year 2007.
In September, a single judge had directed Omar Abdullah to pay interim maintenance of Rs. 1,50,000 per month to Payal Abdullah and also increased the interim maintenance from Rs 75,000 fixed by the family court in Apri 2018.
The court had also directed Omar to pay Rs 60,000 per month to both sons for their education, though they are now majors and not entitled to any maintenance as per law.
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