A division bench comprising justice K Usha and justice G Sivarajan while dismissing an appeal by one George John, whose petition to declare his marriage null and void on grounds of his wife's insanity was rejected by a single judge, held that Christian marriages were bound by the provisions of Indian Divorce Act, in which insanity was not a ground for divorce.

The bench said, however as per the Hindu Marriage Act, a decree for divorce could be obtained on the ground that wife or husband had been of unsound mind for a continuous period of not less than three years immediately preceding the marriage.

``It may not be open for the court to add a new ground to Section 10 of the Indian Divorce Act for getting a decree of dissolution of marriage,'' the bench held, adding that this anomaly could be corrected only throughthe legislature by bringing in appropriate amendment to the statute.