Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 13(1)(ia) -- Divorce - Cruelty - Petition by husband - Husband and wife hardly lived together for a couple of months and initial bickerings were not properly sorted out and both of them are living separately - Husband has not made out a case for cruelty either physical or mental - Divorce petition rightly dismissed...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 306 -- Abetment of suicide - Allegation that appellant used to suspect character of his wife and allegedly subjected her to mental harassment on that basis - Suspicion, however strong cannot take place of proof - Witnesses have deposed about suspicion and strained relations but have not attributed any specific overt act of instigation,..........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 13(1)(ia), (ib) -- Divorce - Cruelty and desertion - Mere accusation of relationship with some other person itself is a mental cruelty and perhaps is the reasonable cause for wife to live apart...........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 13(1)(iii) -- Divorce - Mental disorder of wife - Neither any oral evidence nor any document of sickness of wife has been produced - Rather, family Court found that after marriage, husband got government job and since wife was an illiterate and uneducated woman, he was not agreeable to continue conjugal relation with her and filed divorce..........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 13(1)(ia) -- Divorce - Cruelty - Petition by wife - Conduct of husband i.e repeated non-appearance before Courts, persistent non-payment of maintenance amount, deliberate violation of judicial directions and total abandonment of legal proceedings, has subjected wife to prolonged mental agony, financial distress, and social humiliation -..........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 13(1)(ia) -- Divorce - Cruelty - Petition by wife - Wife had led clear, consistent and cogent evidence establishing a continuous course of mental cruelty at the hands of husband - Her sworn testimony was not only coherent and trustworthy but stood fully corroborated by undisputed judicial records including multiple proceedings under Cr.P.C..........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 13(1)(ia) -- Divorce - Cruelty - Petition by husband - No evidence on record that husband faced any mental cruelty from wife on account of being bald, having dark complexion and suffering from lameness - Such a ground for obtaining a decree of divorce appears to be arbitrary and concocted - Divorce petition rightly dismissed...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 498A, 332, 504, 34, Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961, Section 3, 4 -- Cruelty - Dowry demand - Allegations against parents of husband - Vague and omnibus allegations levelled against appellants - No specific instance or occasion detailed with particulars wherein appellants demanded dowry from wife and on refusal of same subjected her to mental..........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 13(1)(ia) -- Divorce - Cruelty - Physical violence is not absolutely essential to constitute cruelty - A consistent course of conduct inflicting immeasurable mental agony and torture will amount to cruelty...........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 13(1)(ia) -- Divorce - Cruelty - Unsubstantiated, belated or exaggerated accusations, particularly when raised only after matrimonial litigation commences, may themselves constitute mental cruelty...........
