Asokan Nee Kandasamy v. Asokan – sllr 1994 volume 1 page 413

In the case between Maheswari Asokan nee Kandasamy (plaintiff) and Krishnan Asokan (defendant), the court addressed the jurisdiction of the District Court of Colombo to hear a divorce suit when the marriage was contracted in India and the alleged malicious desertion occurred abroad, as well as the recognition of constructive malicious desertion as grounds for divorce under Sri Lankan law. It was held that a plaintiff resident in Colombo may initiate divorce proceedings there under Section 597 of the Civil Procedure Code, even if the marriage was contracted elsewhere, and that constructive malicious desertion constitutes valid grounds for dissolution of marriage. The decision relied on the interpretation of Section 597 of the Civil Procedure Code, Section 19 of the Marriages (General) Ordin