BHARTI VERMA vs ADITYA DUDEJA

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$~104 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Date of decision: 28.04.2025 + MAT.APP.(F.C.) 156/2025 BHARTI VERMA .....Appellant Through: Ms. Preeti Singh, Mr. Sunklan Porwal, Ms. Shefali Menezes, Ms. Sakshi Trivedi, Ms. Ayushi Kumari, Advocates. versus ADITYA DUDEJA .....Respondent Through: Mr. Rajeev Sharma and Mr. Vinayak Sharma, Advocates. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE NAVIN CHAWLA HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE RENU BHATNAGAR NAVIN CHAWLA, J. (Oral) CM APPL. 24731/2025 (Exemption from filing original/ certified/ legible copies of annexures) and CM APPL. 24732/2025 (Exemption from filing lengthy synopsis and list of dates) 1. Allowed, subject to all just exceptions. MAT.APP.(F.C.) 156/2025 and CM APPL. 24730/2025 (for interim directions) 2. This appeal has been filed under Section 19 of the Family Courts Act, 1984, challenging the Order dated 28th March, 2025 passed by the learned Judge, Family Court, Patiala House Court, New Delhi in HMA No. 122/2023, titled ‘Aditya Dudeja vs. Bharti Verma’, dismissing the application filed by the appellant herein seeking stay of the further proceedings in the above HMA filed by the Signature Not Verified Signed By:VIJAYA MAT.APP.(F.C.) 156/2025 Page 1 of 8 LAKSHMI DOBHAL Signing Date:02.05.2025 16:37:32 respondent, and further, closing the right of the appellant to conduct the cross-examination of PW2 - Mr. Ved Prakash Dudeja, father of the respondent herein. 3. Just to give a brief background of the facts in which the present appeal arises, the marriage between the parties was solemnized on 08.12.2022. On 27.01.2023, the respondent filed the above petition under Section 12(1)(b) and (c) of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 (hereinafter referred to as ‘HMA’) seeking annulment of the marriage. The appellant, in turn, on 03.11.2023, filed a petition