The Delhi High Court has ruled that making false and fabricated complaints against a spouse amounts to mental cruelty and is a valid ground for divorce. The court found that the wife’s behavior, including false allegations and abandonment, caused deep emotional harm.
The Delhi High Court has upheld a family court’s decision to grant divorce to a husband, stating that constant verbal abuse and insulting language used by the wife towards him and his family amounted to cruelty.
The Bombay High Court dismissed a wife’s plea to cancel a divorce, stating she was aware of court procedures but failed to appear despite being served summons multiple times.
The Chhattisgarh High Court stated that a wife visiting her husband’s office and using abusive language amounts to cruelty. The court upheld the divorce granted to the husband by the Raipur family court.
Chhattisgarh High Court ruled that false complaints under section 498-A IPC cannot be used as a weapon to settle personal scores against the husband’s family. Such false allegations cause mental cruelty and impact divorce cases.
The Kerala High Court ruled that a person is not guilty of bigamy if they marry again while a divorce appeal is pending, as long as the appeal is later dismissed.
The Delhi High Court ruled that making false accusations of an extra-marital affair amounts to mental cruelty and upheld the divorce granted to a husband by the family court.
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has ruled that calling a husband ‘Hijda’ is a form of mental cruelty. The Court upheld a family court’s decision granting divorce based on this behavior.
The Karnataka High Court granted a US-based man the right to prosecute his wife for malicious prosecution after quashing charges against him in a false dowry case. The court cited the misuse of legal procedures and upheld the husband’s claim of innocence.
The Delhi High Court upheld a family court’s decision granting divorce, stating that a wife’s actions, including acting as a widow while her husband was alive, amounted to extreme cruelty and destroyed the marital relationship.
