According to a recent ruling by the Madhya Pradesh High Court, a wife’s disrespect for her husband and his family qualifies as cruelty towards the man.
Upon dismissing a woman’s appeal of the divorce order issued by the family court on the basis of cruelty claimed in the petition by the male, the bench of Justice Sheel Nagu and Justice Virender Singh made the aforementioned observations.
The wife claimed in her appeal to the top court that she and her little son were compelled to leave the matrimonial home as a result of her husband’s behavior of her.
The husband, however, was the one who requested a divorce from the family court on the grounds of cruelty and desertion. Although the court found both claims to be true, it only granted the petition on the basis of “cruelty” for due process reasons.
Before the high court, the wife claimed that the family court had mistakenly accepted the husband’s evidence despite contradictions when it issued the divorce order by solely taking into account the husband’s arguments and points of view. She said that their divorce was brought on by her husband’s treatment of her. The husband, on the other hand, argued against the appeal.
The high court noted that the husband had claimed that the wife, who is the daughter of an IPS officer, was proud, arrogant, stubborn, short-tempered, pretentious, and that she frequently insulted his family members.
The court took note of the husband’s assertions made during his oral examination before the trial court that his wife began disobeying everyone the moment she entered their marital home and that she is a progressive girl who neither enjoys nor adheres to traditions.
The Supreme Court’s ruling in V. Bhagat v. D. Bhagat (1994), in which it was decided that conduct that causes the other party such mental pain and suffering that it would be impossible for that party to cohabitate with the other, can be considered mental cruelty, was one of many decisions the court cited in reaching its conclusion.
Also, the court stated that the family court had reached the opinion that the husband’s and his witnesses’ statements were reliable while the wife’s accusations did not hold up in its extremely extensive ruling that covered every single issue.
“All this shows that the wife was harassing and torturing him and his entire family. His statement remained intact in cross-examination. His witnesses including his younger brother stood firm with him”, Court observed.
As a result, the court refused to interfere in the family court’s decision given that the woman was willing to stay with the husband and that her reasons for leaving her marital home were insufficient and without reason.
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