Husband secured divorce while maintaining another woman
Samaritan1987
(Querist) 15 September 2025
This query is : Resolved
Hello all, my father secured divorce while maintaining another woman and gave birth to a girl while divorce is his divorce is pending with my mother.
He filed divorce in 1992 and granted divorce in 1997 but he illegally married another woman and gave birth to a girl in 1995, my father is a govt teacher, but he leveled false allegations against my mother and did perjury to the court by concealing his illegal wife and child, my father has taken away my mother’s properties and left her destitute state. How can I reopen the divorce case of 1997 in 2025 and how to cancel that divorce and make my mother as legal wife again and punish my father or get compensation for damaging life of my mother. Please advise
T. Kalaiselvan, Advocate
(Expert) 16 September 2025
You are not the affected party.
If at all your mother had any grievances she should have preferred an appeal against the judgment within the limitation period.
First of all you are not even able to understand that whether your father was maintaining the other woman or he got married to her during the pendency of the divorce process.
If that was the case your mother could have filed a criminal complaint for the acts of bigamy, but you r mother did not resist it neither she tried to retrieve her property if that was fraudulently taken away by your father deceiving your mother as alleged by you. It is almost three decades now, hence no complaint or case or an appeal will be maintainable especially you cannot file any such case.
Samaritan1987
(Querist) 16 September 2025
Hi Sir,
I am studying LLB 2nd year , I would like to take vakalatnama from my mother once I graduate and would like to bring this matter up to the court on behalf of my mother, and want to fight the injustice done to her, so I want to know how can I initiate a suit or reopen the case as 30 years were passed now.
kavksatyanarayana
(Expert) 16 September 2025
I think it is not possible now, even if your mother requests that the court reopen the file.
