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In 1990, it was less than one pc. In 2006, figures swelled to 40 % Alarming increase in divorce petitions filed by KP couples 7/25/2007 11:14:20 PM By Rajesh Bhat JAMMU, July 25: Thanks to the mass migration of 1990, there has been an alarming increase in the percentage of divorce petitions, filed by mismatched Kashmiri Pandit couples, in the Matrimonial Courts here during the past 18 years!. Prior to the exodus from the valley, the number of such petitions from the community of over three lakh, was less than one percent whiles it touched whopping 40 percent mark of the total divorce petitions filed in the courts here last year. According to the figures available from the Matrimonial Court of Jammu and Kashmir, during the initial years of migration and when the community began to pick up the threads of life, the percentage of such petitions was just 12 . Out of the total 250 divorce petitions filed in the State in 1995, 30 applicants were Kashmiri Pandit boys and girls who had sought separation from each other. In 2001, the total number of divorce petitions that came before the Court was 976 , of which KPs accounted for 300 (30 percent). The figures suggested unprecedented ...   READ MORE

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