No need to sacrifices your dream your career just because you are a married woman

Описание: Ann Saurabh Dutt v. Lieutenant Colonel Saurabh Iqbal Bahadur Dutt
Citation: 2026 INSC 475 | 2026 LiveLaw (SC) 489
Bench: Justice Vikram Nath and Justice Sandeep Mehta.

*Fact Highlights
••• The appellant (wife), a professionally qualified dentist, married the respondent (an Army officer) in 2009.
•••She initially sacrificed her practice in Pune to join her husband at his posting in Kargil.
Due to her pregnancy and her child’s serious medical condition (seizure episodes), she moved to Ahmedabad for better healthcare and resumed her dental practice.
•••The husband alleged cruelty and desertion, claiming she prioritised her career over the marriage by living separately and opening a clinic without his “permission”.
•••The Family Court and Gujarat High Court (2024) initially upheld these findings, granting divorce on grounds of cruelty and desertion.

*Final Order
••• The Supreme Court expunged all findings of cruelty and desertion against the wife, calling them “legally unsustainable”.
•••The Court maintained the divorce decree but modified the grounds to “irretrievable breakdown of marriage,” noting that the husband had already remarried#advocate.
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