In Brief
A husband sought an anti-suit injunction to restrain his US-domiciled wife from pursuing divorce in a Florida court after he filed a matrimonial petition in India under the Hindu Marriage Act. The wife, a US citizen also ordinarily residing in India, had filed for divorce on grounds of irretrievable breakdown of marriage available under US law but not Indian law. The Supreme Court held that anti-suit injunctions should be granted only sparingly. Here, although the wife was amenable to Indian jurisdiction, declining the injunction would not cause grave injustice to the husband; both courts had concurrent jurisdiction, and foreign courts cannot be presumed to exercise jurisdiction wrongly merely because the matrimonial law differs. The appeal was dismissed.
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