Divorce -- Non-Lodging of FIR by Wife -- Mere fact of non-institution of a formal First Information Report cannot by itself be treated as a ground to discredit testimony concerning cruelty in matrimonial proceedings.
(i) Family Courts Act, 1984, S.19 -- Divorce -- Appeal Under Section 19 Family Courts Act -- Appeal under this section lies both on facts and law and is comparable in scope to a first appeal under Section 96 of the Civil Procedure Code, 1908 -- Appellate court may reappraise and review the entire oral and documentary evidence and reach its own conclusions, and may interfere where relevant evidence is ignored or a finding is so unreasonable as to be perverse.
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