India: Not taking care of a husband’s needs does not amount to cruelty

perplexedm · 2018-03-03T08:58:55+00:00

The court dismissed a plea by a 52-year-old Santacruz resident seeking to divorce from his wife (40) on the grounds that she treated him cruelly.

Pretty common in India:

The couple had married in 2005 and lived in their matrimonial home with the man’s parents. According to his divorce plea, the man claimed his wife used to come home late from work and pick up quarrels with his aged parents

The man had also cited a non-cognisable complaint that he had lodged against the woman a few months before his divorce plea accusing her of scratching and twisting his fingers. “It is quite unbelievable that just for scratching and for twisting of fingers the man had to take treatment in an hospital. In our opinion, this was done by him to prepare the ground for filing petition for divorce,” said the high court.

If the genders were opposite, HC would've easily accepted the case.

OnePunchSnowman · 2018-03-03T14:32:54+00:00

So she didn't take care of her in-laws and didn't give her husband water or 'tasty' food? Would it be considered cruelty even if I was the other way round? I would just see it as mildly rude behaviour on her part

Title	India: Not taking care of a husband’s needs does not amount to cruelty
Author	perplexedm
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Date	March 3, 2018 8:57 AM UTC (8 years ago)
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