Summary:
Nagpur: Setting a new precedent, a family court here granted divorce to a couple after recording the wife’s consent via a WhatsApp video call. While husband attended the meeting, wife had granted power of attorney to her brother, to plead her case. Incidentally, the meeting was attended by the husband and wife was contacted on WhatsApp video call. Differences cropped up after the wife stayed with the in-laws in the city for some time after her visa expired. It was on her directives that the family court counsellor conducted the wife’s counselling via WhatsApp video callThe couple had an arranged marriage on August 11, 2013, at Secunderabad, as the wife is from Telangana..