SONI GUPTA vs GAURAV GARG

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$~58 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Date of Decision: 05th May, 2025 + CM(M) 820/2025 & CM APPL. 26881-26882/2025 SONI GUPTA .....Petitioner Through: Mr. S.S. Panwar, Ms. Nivedita, Mr. Ravi Panwar, Advs. versus GAURAV GARG .....Respondent Through: Mr. Prabhat Kumar, Adv. with respondent in person. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE MANOJ JAIN J U D G M E N T (oral) 1. Petitioner is defending a petition seeking divorce filed by her husband. 2. The grievance in the present petition is very limited. 3. The cross-examination of her husband is underway and according to learned counsel for the wife, in view of the fact that the examination-in-chief is very exhaustive and reliance has been placed upon several documents, the counsel for the wife is not in a position to conclude cross-examination within the three dates granted by the learned Trial Court. The request is, therefore, to grant two more dates for concluding cross-examination. 4. The cross examination is now scheduled on 06.05.2025, 15.05.2025 and the third date is yet to be fixed by the learned Local Commissioner. 5. Needless to say, the cross-examination is not to be done in perpetuity and it has to be concluded in a reasonable time bound-manner. However, at Signature Not Verified Digitally Signed CM(M) 820/2025 1 By:SONIA THAPLIYAL Signing Date:06.05.2025 14:46:14 the same time, there can't be any strait jacket formula, deciding about the time-frame for concluding such cross-examination. 6. Learned counsel for respondent/ husband is also present on advance notice. 7. After hearing arguments from both the parties and without expressing any opinion with respect to rival contentions, the present petition is disposed of with the liberty to the petitioner wife to make appropriate request before the learned Judge, F