New Delhi, May 29 -- The Supreme Court has dissolved a marriage despite the wife opposing divorce, not because she wanted to save the relationship, but because she first wanted to prove in court that her husband committed adultery. Observing that a marriage existing "only on paper" serves no meaningful purpose, a bench of justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta on Wednesday dissolved the marriage, exercising its extraordinary power under Article 142 of the Constitution. The court said that the relationship between the couple had collapsed beyond repair and continuing the legal bond any further would merely prolong bitterness and litigation. "The ties of matrimony, in every meaningful sense, have long since been severed. In such circumstances...