- 女方和男方在12.2013注册。这是一段父母指腹为婚的婚姻。注册前，男方和女方是从未见过面的。他们也只是在电子App 交流而已。
- 双方在注册前的几个月曾经见面。双方同意行了传统婚礼后才一起住。可惜双方却没有机会住在一起。
- 女方入禀法庭申请婚姻无效。
- 男方也申请赔偿RM14,236.00，在婚姻期间的开销，取消承当女方汽车贷款的担保人，归还男方送的手机，归还男方和女方一起拍照的照片，还有情绪和思维干扰的赔偿RM250,000.00。
- 在听审日，双方同意婚姻无效，法庭允许婚姻无效。
- 至于男方申请的赔偿，离婚法令很清楚注明除了通奸能赔偿，其他的情况，离婚法庭是没有权限审判男方所指的情绪干扰之类的赔偿。
- 所以，男方申请的赔偿应该在民事法庭申请而不是在离婚法庭。
- 虽然离婚法庭没有权限听审男方的申请，但是法庭还是在判词中(小编注：基于法庭的权限，这只是法官的意见，并不是属于约束性的判决)说，由于男方在诉讼里没有列明女方是导致婚姻无效的一方，然后导致男方蒙受损失，所以男方是不应该获得赔偿。
- 法官也说，任何男方给女方的金钱或是礼物都是自愿的，所以双方都不能跟对方索回。
- Wife(PW) and Husband (RH) were married on 11.12.2013. It was an arranged marriage made by family members of both parties. Before the marriage, PW and RH have never met in person and they merely communicated through the electronic media.
- PW and RH eventually met a few months before the marriage. It was agreed between PW and RH that they would only cohabit after going through the ceremonial marriage which unfortunately did not take place.
- PW filed a divorce petition against the RH for the marriage to be declared null and void on the ground of non-consummation.
- RH cross-petitioned for damages which includes special damages of RM14,236.00 spent during the marriage, the withdrawal of RH from acting as a guarantor in PW car hire-purchase agreement, the return of the handphone, the return of photographs taken of RH and PW and general damages for RM250,000.00 for emotional and mental anguish suffered by the RH during the marriage.
- On the hearing date, parties agreed for the marriage to be declared null and void due to non-consummation, which was granted by this court.
- It is very clear that the LRA was enacted to provide for marriages and divorces, maintenance for spouses, former spouses and children, the custody of children and for the division of the matrimonial property. Save and except for damages for adultery the LRA makes no mention of any other forms of damages such as the tortious claims on mental anguish made by the RH in this present case.
- The proper forum to litigate this claim by the RH is for the RH to proceed separately by way of a writ action as it would not be appropriate and or suitable to proceed with it under this petition.
- LRA had done so far is to allow specific claim for damages in the area of adultery under s.58 and s.59 of the LRA only and nothing else. The law as it stands appears to say that tort cases and divorce cases must be litigated separately.
- RH did not make any attempt to prove that the annulment would be unjust and that the PW is the guilty party who wilfuly refused to consummate the marriage and consequently therefore, due to the the PW’s conduct the RH is entitled to damages. In the premise the RH is not entitled to any damages. This court finds that whatever money or gifts given by the RH to the PW are purely on a voluntary basis and the parties have no claim against each other.
- The counter claim cannot be sustained under this petition. Therefore, the preliminary objection is allowed and the counter claim for special and general damages is dismissed with no order as to cost
Source: Shobana a/p Perumal v Ganesh a/l Guna [2016] MLJU 1108. High Court Ipoh. Hayatul Akmal JC.
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