The Chhattisgarh High Court has ruled that a wife visiting her husband’s office and abusing him amounts to cruelty, upholding a Raipur family court’s decision to grant a man divorce.
Justices Goutam Bhaduri and Radhakishan Agrawal delivered this judgment on August 18, dismissing the woman’s appeal against the family court’s order. The court noted that the wife’s complaint to a minister, accusing her husband, a government official, of having an illicit relationship with a female colleague, also constituted cruelty.
The case involved a 32-year-old man from Dhamtari district who married a 34-year-old widow from Raipur in 2010. The man sought a divorce, citing various grounds, including the wife’s abusive behavior and her attempts to prevent him from meeting his parents and other family members.
In December 2019, the Raipur family court granted the husband a divorce after reviewing the evidence. The woman appealed the decision in the High Court, arguing that the family court had failed to recognize the cruelty she faced from her husband.
Advocate Shishir Shrivastava, representing the woman, claimed that the husband had fabricated evidence to obtain a divorce. However, Advocate C Jayant K Rao, representing the husband, countered that the man had endured character assassination due to the wife’s unfounded allegations of an extramarital affair. The wife even visited his office to create scenes and sent letters to the Chief Minister seeking his transfer.
The High Court observed that the evidence showed the wife frequently abused her husband over trivial matters, as corroborated by witness statements. Despite the non-cognizable nature of these complaints, the police records indicated the husband’s consistent grievances about his wife’s rash and abusive behavior.
The court also noted that the wife visited her husband’s office and used abusive language, which damaged his reputation among colleagues. Additionally, she abused her in-laws and prevented her husband from meeting his parents, which the court deemed as cruelty.
The High Court upheld the family court’s decision to grant the husband a divorce, affirming that the wife’s actions constituted marital cruelty.
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