Calcutta HC: Persistent Manipulation To Separate Husband From His Parents Tantamounts To Cruelty

A Calcutta High Court Bench of Justice Soumen Sen and Justice Uday kumar has held that divorce may be granted to a husband who has suffered mental cruelty in the hands of his wife. Here, the wife had forced the husband to get separated from his parents, mentally harassed him by using words like “ coward’, “ unemployed”, etc. which led him to file for divorce that was granted in 2009.

The present case saw baseless reasons for which the wife had forced and manipulated the husband to get separated from his parents, besides alleged discontentment over financial issues and trifles over minor domestic issues between the husband and the wife. The husband had tried his best to adjust over the years, only to find his efforts in vain. The High Court bench dismissed the wife’s plea against a 2009 order of a family court in Paschim Medinipur  in which divorce was  granted to the husband on grounds of cruelty as mentioned earlier.

The Court’s order was also supplemented by the fact that the wife had earlier filed a false criminal complaint against the husband for which he had lost his government job. There was no scope in this particular matrimonial case to rekindle the marital life of the couple that was marked with long years of separation, mental cruelty, agony and inability to live together and therefore the Court upheld that the divorce is the only just solution in this particular case.