PESHAWAR, Feb 5: A two-member bench of the Peshawar High Court on Friday dismissed a writ petition of a person challenging dissolution of his marriage with a woman who was 35 years younger to him.

A family court in Mardan had dissolved the marriage between the petitioner, Abdur Raheem, and Kausar Parveen on the ground that the petitioner was impotent.

The bench comprising Justice Shehzad Akber Khan and Justice Fazalur Rehman Khan observed that the trial court had rightly dissolved the marriage as on the ground of impotency a woman could seek dissolution of her marriage under the Dissolution of Muslim Marriages Act, 1939.

The court was informed that the petitioner was 55-year-old, whereas his former wife was 20.

The woman, who is a teacher, had filed a suit for the dissolution of her marriage and had invoked section 2(V) of the Act stating that she had spent two years with her husband and he was impotent.-Correspondent