law: Indian Divorce Act, 1869 
  26. Decree of separation obtained during absence of
  
  husband or wife may be reversed 
  Any husband or wife, upon the application of whose wife or husband,
  
  as the case may be, a decree of judicial separation has been pronounced, may,
  
  at anytime thereafter, present a petition to the court by which the decree was
  
  pronounced, praying for a reversal of such decree, on the ground that it was
  
  obtained in his or her absence, and that there was reasonable excuse for the
  
  alleged desertion, where desertion was the ground of such decree.
  The court may, on being satisfied of the truth of the
  
  allegations of such petition, reverse the decree accordingly; but such reversal
  
  shall not prejudice or affect the rights or remedies which any other person
  
  would have had, in case it had not been decreed, in respect of any debts,
  
  contracts, or acts of the wife incurred, entered into, or done between the
  
  times of the sentence of separation and of the reversal thereof.