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Historical Event on 2/24/1995

A full Bench comprising Chief Justice M.M. Pareed Pillai, TV Ramakrishna and P. Shanmugam of the Kerala High Court quashed the words ""incestuous adultery"", ""adultery coupled with cruelty"" and ""adultery coupled with desertion"" contained in Section 10 of Indian (Christian) Divorce Act.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/20/1947British Prime Minister Clement Attlee announced in the House of Commons, London, that Britain will release India before June 1948 and for this purpose Lord Louis Mountbatten was appointed to work as the new Viceroy of India.
7/10/1991C. G. Pandit, famous scientist and Padmabhushan awardee, died.
1/22/1963The National Library for the Blind, the first national institute of its kind, was set up at Dehradun.
7/3/1908Bal Gangadhar Tilak was arrested as a traitor by the Britishers.
8/1/1989Kirti Vrajlal Ambani,Reliance executive, held in connection with a plot to kill Bombay Dyeing Chairman Nusli Wadia.
9/17/1997Advance railway reservation period extended from 30 to 60 days w.e.f. February 01, 1998.
10/31/1843Tarkanath Gangopadhyay, first realistic social novelist of Bengal, was born.
3/10/193917 villages damaged by hailstones in Hyderabad, India.
11/1/1974Vangipurappu Venkata Sai Laxman, cricketer (Indian Test batsman v S Africa 1996 ), was born in Hyderabad.
5/26/1998Prof. Jagdish Bhagwati, economist, was awarded the 1998 Freedom Prize of the Max Schmidmeiny Foundation.