AMRAVATI: The privacy of the institution of marriage is threatened as of late it has become a subject of great judicial scrutiny, said Justice Wasanti Naik of the Nagpur bench of Bombay high court.

Naik, while speaking on the occasion of inauguration of new building of the family court on the premises of Amravati district and sessions court on Saturday, said there are a number of enactments and judicial provisions dealing with marriage and its various aspects. “Yet, in a recent study, it is found that forty per cent of marriages in Mumbai and Delhi are heading towards a divorce,” the justice said.

She said the provisions of Section 498 A of the IPC and certain provisions of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act are being misused. “The family court system has several advantages. There are some families that cannot resolve their disputes on their own. Family courts are equipped with mediators and counsellors who would try to resolve their disputes without court intervention,” she said and felicitated eleven of the fifty couples whose disputes were resolved at the family court here last year.

She congratulated Amravati family court judge I J Nanda for bringing the pendency to manageable limits. Justice S B Shukre presided over the function while principal district and sessions judge Anil Pansare , and Amravati Bar Association president Prashant Deshpande were on the dais.

Naik announced the sanction of second family court for Amravati and said the appointment process for this has already started.

When marriage got new definition

Amravati family court judge I J Nanda came out with a new definition of the word marriage. She said, “M stands for mutual understanding, A for adjustment, R for respect for each other and their families, R for real love, I for interest in each other and each other’s work, A for attraction for each other, G for god gift relationship and E for end of egos and worries.” And what is a family? For a son or a daughter, family, as Nanda said, means “Father And Mother I Love You”.

