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High Court of Chhattisgarh at Bilaspur, Division Bench (Rajani Dubey & Sachin Singh Rajput, JJ.; CAV judgment per Rajani Dubey, J.), neutral citation 2025:CGHC:7786-DB, delivered 13.02.2025 (reserved 17.01.2025). Common judgment in FA(MAT) No. 30 of 2021, Lileshwar Kurre v. Smt. Preetibala Kurre — husband's appeal against the Family Court, Balod decree dated 25.03.2021 in Civil Suit No. 40-A/2016 allowing the wife's Section 9 Hindu Marriage Act restitution application — with FAM No. 119 of 2016, husband's appeal against dismissal dated 13.05.2016 (1st Additional Principal Judge, Link Court/Family Court, Balod, Civil Suit No. 23A/2010) of his Section 13 divorce suit. Marriage 28.04.2007 (also pleaded as 27.04.2007); daughter born 11.06.2008 in the wife's custody; wife living separately at her parental home since 2008. FIR under Section 498-A IPC against the husband and his family ended in acquittal (13.03.2013, Ex.P/4); the State's appeal was dismissed (29.01.2015, Ex.P/3); the wife also filed proceedings under the Domestic Violence Act and Section 125 Cr.P.C. Held: the wife committed cruelty and deserted the husband without any cause and never tried to reconcile; the trial courts' findings were perverse. Both appeals allowed; both impugned judgments set aside; marriage dissolved from the date of judgment; husband to pay Rs. 5,00,000/- permanent alimony within two months. Counsel: Sunil Sahu for the appellant; Prashant Dansena for the respondent. Precedents: Rani Narasimha Sastry v. Rani Suneela Rani (2019 SCC OnLine SC 1595) applied; Smt. Indra Meshram v. Bhanupratap Singh Meshram (CG HC FAM No. 164 of 2018, 08.03.2022) relied on; K. Shrinivas v. K. Sunita (2014) 16 SCC 34; Malathi Ravi v. B.V. Ravi (2014) 7 SCC 640; Shwetabh Vikram Gupta v. Priyanka Gupta (CG HC FAM No. 171 of 2019) referred.