JODHPUR, May 19 -- The Rajasthan high court has dissolved a marriage on grounds of cruelty while issuing strong observations against the 'atta-satta' custom, particularly when it involves children, a lawyer said on Monday. A bench of justices Arun Monga and Sunil Beniwal passed the order earlier this month on an appeal by a woman, setting aside a family court order that dismissed her divorce plea. The 'atta-satta' custom refers to a marriage arrangement where a daughter from a family is married to a son from another family and, in return, a daughter from the second family is married to a son from the first. The bench held that the Family Court had wrongly focused on the dispute arising from the 'atta-satta' arrangement instead of independently examining allegations of matrimonial cruelty. The court said: "Any custom that requires a girl to marry because another marriage occurred is per se morally bankrupt. Much worse is the practice that binds a minor to such an arrangement."htc...