Supreme Court asks Allahabad High Court Registrar General to explain inordinate delay in uploading 2019 judgment online

The Supreme Court has asked the Registrar General of the Allahabad High Court to explain the alleged 6-month delay in uploading a judgment passed in November last year on the High Court's website..Notably, the case in question involves a question of irretrievable breakdown of marriage, which is not statutorily recognised as a ground for divorce but which has been acknowledged by the Supreme Court in the past, including in the last year..The Bench of Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Hrishikesh Roy was told by the petitioner's counsel that while the judgment in his client's case was passed on November 6, 2019, the judgment copy was uploaded online on the Court's website only in May this year. .As such, the top Court has now called for an explanation from the High Court's Registrar General for the inordinate delay within three weeks..'We call upon the Registrar General of the Allahabad High Court to inform us of the reason why there has been such inordinate delay in uploading the judgment on the website and the report be submitted to us within three weeks."Supreme Court.The Court proceeded to issue notice in the matter, which involves a matrimonial dispute. .The petitioner had sought a decree of divorce on the ground of cruelty before a family court back in 2007, which was eventually dismissed on merit. The Allahabad High Court also dismissed an appeal filed against the family court order, agreeing with the family court that no cruelty was made out in the case for the grant of a decree of divorce. .The High Court further noted that while the marriage may have been irretrievably broken down, it does not have the power to grant a divorce on this ground. Rather, the Bench noted that this power was earlier exercised by the Supreme Court by exercising its jurisdiction under Article 142 of the Constitution of India..Irretrievable breakdown of marriage: “Nothing remains in this marriage”, Supreme Court invokes Article 142 to grant divorce.Upon the dismissal of the plea by the High Court, the petitioner has now approached the Supreme Court with his case. .Taking note of submissions that the spouses have been living apart for 13 years now and that the marriage has irretrievably broken down, the top Court has issued notice in the matter returnable by four weeks, and subject to the orders passed in the application alleging inordinate delay in uploading the High Court's ruling online. .Read the order: