The parties married on June 18, 1997; they had a son born on August 5, 1998. In 2008 the husband got a divorce on the grounds of the wife being cruel Section 27 of the Special Marriage Act, 1954. In 2016, the Trial Court dismissed the divorce petition on a finding that no case concerning its other ground of claim namely cruelty was proved. This decision was overturned by the Calcutta High Court in 2019 and it granted divorce on the basis of mental cruelty and irretrievable breakdown of marriage Permanent alimony maintained by the Supreme Court was increased to Rs. 50,000 per month (increased by Rs. 20,000) and changed the cycle of increments to two years (2%, the increase) instead of three years. It stopped the mandatory financial allowance given to its 26-year old son and he said that this does not affect the right of the son to inheritance.