The Court found that the woman, despite knowing that she had a 75-year-old mother-in-law and a sister-in-law with unsound mind, refused to live in the village with them and instead asked her husband to move out.
The Court issued the note of warning after the Tamil Nadu government alleged that the collectors were made to wait at the ED's office from 8 in the morning till 6 in the evening.
The top court also said that the trial judges have to take a participatory role in the proceedings and not act as mere tape recorders to record whatever is being stated by the witnesses.
The Court said that as per the settled law, a woman, who has already been married to another person, cannot be treated as a legally-wedded wife of the second husband without divorce from her first husband.
The Court earlier had sought the NCDRC members' explanation as to why they had issued non-bailable warrants against the directors of a realty company when the top court had stayed any coercive action against the company.