UNWORKABLE, EMOTIONALLY DEAD, BEYOND SALVAGE AND BROKEN DOWN IRRETRIEVABLY Bench of Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice MR Shah has ordered dissolution of a marriage of a couple, living separately for 22 years and failing to reconcile their differences. In R. Srinivas Kumar vs R. Shametha, (CIVIL APPEAL NO. 4696 OF 2013 ) Supreme Court dissolved the marriage under Article 142 of Indian Constitution.The court termed the marriage "unworkable, emotionally dead, beyond salvage and broken down irretrievably". The husband had filed an appeal in the Supreme court against the 2012 Andhra Pradesh High Court judgement, upholding the family court decision to refuse to pass a decree of divorce against the wife. The couple had got married in 1993, but later, a difference of opinion emerged, with the husband alleging that cruelty was meted out to him. Till 1997, for a majority of time, the wife stayed at her parental house. The husband filed a divor...