In a one-of-a-kind verdict, the Thane Family Court granted divorce within 30 minutes to a senior citizen couple caught in various litigations for over a decade. In fact, it was the court that advised both the parties to consider a mutual divorce when they had approached the National Lok Adalat on May 7 over their pending litigations. Both the husband, aged 73, and wife, aged 65, accepted the court’s advice, and filed for a mutual divorce around 1.30 pm on May 9 which was granted by 2 pm.

The legal battle between the man and woman started in 2012 when the wife filed a case before the Thane Family Court seeking maintenance as she started living separately. Since then, both the parties filed four different cases including one of domestic abuse.