HITESH KAPOOR Vs. STATE OF U.P.

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Heard.

(2.) When the matter came up again today, learned Counsel for the parties pointed out that pursuant to the settlement arrived at between the parties with the help of Mediation Centre, joint petition, No. 113 of 2012 under Section 13(B) of the Hindu Marriage Act seeking a decree of divorce by mutual consent was filed before the Additional District Judge, Karnal, which petition has since been allowed and a decree for divorce dissolving the marriage between the parties passed by mutual consent. Learned Counsel for Respondent No. 2-wife has filed a certified copy of the order passed by the additional District Judge, Karnal, on a reading whereof it appears that the marriage between the parties has indeed been dissolved by mutual consent in terms of Section 13(B) of the Act with a direction that the parties shall be bound by the terms of the settlement arrived at between them.

(3.) Learned Counsel for the parties now submits that in the light of the settlement and the subsequent development under which the marriage between the Appellant No. 2-Shweta and Respondent No. 2-Gaurav Dhooper stands dissolved, nothing really survive for consideration as all other outstanding disputes including criminal cases lodged by the parties against each other stand withdrawn, in the light of the settlement. They have in that regard drawn our attention to paras "6" to "8" of the settlement arrived at between them which read as under: