The Chhattisgarh High Court has upheld a divorce granted to a man after his wife insulted him as “paaltu chuha” and pressured him to abandon his parents. The Court ruled this behavior as mental cruelty and awarded ₹5 lakh permanent alimony to the wife.
The Gujarat High Court has dismissed a wife’s plea for restitution of conjugal rights, holding that her suicide attempt and public defamation of her husband amounted to mental cruelty. The Court upheld that such acts justify the husband’s withdrawal from marriage.
The Madhya Pradesh High Court ruled that vulgar chats with other men amount to mental cruelty in marriage. The Court upheld a husband’s divorce plea, dismissing the wife’s appeal.
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has ruled that a wife calling her husband ‘Hijda’ amounts to mental cruelty. Dismissing the wife’s appeal, the court upheld the divorce, noting the couple had lived apart for six years and the marriage was beyond repair.
The Chhattisgarh High Court ruled that insulting a husband for being unemployed during COVID-19 amounts to mental cruelty. Granting divorce, the Court observed that the wife’s arrogance, desertion, and humiliation during financial stress proved cruelty under the Hindu Marriage Act.
The Delhi High Court granted divorce to a man, ruling that his wife’s actions—driven by parental influence, false complaints, and refusal to resume conjugal life—amounted to extreme mental cruelty.
The Karnataka High Court has ruled that a husband’s false allegations of adultery and doubts about his wife’s character amount to mental cruelty. The court overturned the divorce and imposed ₹10,000 in costs on the husband.
The Kerala High Court ruled that a wife making repeated secret phone calls to another man despite her husband’s warning amounts to mental cruelty, making it a valid ground for divorce.
The Gujarat High Court ruled that a wife’s suicide attempt and public defamation of her husband amounted to mental cruelty, dismissing her plea to restore conjugal rights.
The Karnataka High Court has ruled that if a marriage fails due to incompatibility and one spouse refuses mutual divorce, it can amount to mental cruelty to the other spouse.
