LUCKNOW, May 3 -- The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court has clarified that it is not mandatory to initiate proceedings under both contempt and perjury charges for filing an incorrect or incomplete affidavit in matrimonial matters. It also stated that courts are not obligated to initiate these proceedings simultaneously. This applies particularly in cases where there is an inadvertent or insignificant error in the affidavit. It said that the appropriate course of action will be determined based on the facts of each case. A division bench comprising Justice Shekhar B Saraf and Justice Abdhesh Kumar Chaudhary delivered the verdict on April 29 while dismissing a special appeal relating to a matrimonial dispute between a husband, an administrative officer, and his wife, a judicial officer. The husband had alleged that his wife had written 'not applicable' (N/A) regarding her income and assets in the affidavit filed in the domestic violence case. The woman's lawyer told the court that the error in the affidavit was inadvertent and could not be considered a deliberate concealment of information. He also argued that the appellant's (husband's) contempt petition was not maintainable under the proviso to Section 10 of the Contempt of Courts Act. The husband's contempt petition had already been dismissed against which he had filed a special appeal. In its decision, the division bench stated that the law permits both types of proceedings, but courts are not obligated to apply them simultaneously in every case. The court also stated that since no substantive comment was made in the contempt petition, the special appeal filed against it was not maintainable....