Santosh Kumar Pahadiya vs Usha Gupta

The Supreme Court granted a mutual consent divorce decree under the provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure, allowing the husband to pay the wife a total of fifteen lakhs in two instalments as permanent alimony. The Court quashed the pending Criminal Case No.4929 of 2006 against the husband and other accused, based on the parties' compromise. The Court also disposed of the wife's petition under Section 125 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, as withdrawn, while stipulating that failure to pay the instalments would result in the order being recalled.