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 - 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 - Allegations pertaining to spending habits, household contribution or mobile usage, without proof of severe mental harassment, do not fall within the statutory meaning of cruelty as required under law...........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 13(1)(ia) -- Divorce - Cruelty - Petition by wife - Wife failed to substantiate the allegations of mental and physical cruelty through reliable and convincing evidence - No complaint before any Court or report before any police station was filed by wife against husband regarding alleged cruelty - Even, she never informed her father,..........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 13(1)(ia) -- Divorce - Cruelty - Wife set herself on fire and later put a blame on relatives of husband - This dreadful act itself is sufficient to hold that she has committed mental cruelty with husband - Divorce granted...........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 13(1)(ia) -- Divorce - Cruelty - Occasional refusal to perform marital obligation is not sufficient to attract mental cruelty in ordinary wear and tear of married life - To establish such cruelty there must be persistent refusal to have sexual relationship...........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 13(1)(ia) -- Divorce - Mental cruelty - Petition by husband - Wife made aspersions to husband towards his physical infirmity and passed comments regarding the same - It amounts to mental cruelty leading to draw an inference against wife that she treated her husband with cruelty owing to his physical deformity - Divorce granted...........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 13(1)(iii) -- Divorce - Mental disorder of wife - Husband has made bald allegation that wife is suffering from mental illness and her behavior is abnormal but he has failed to adduce any documentary evidence thereto - He did not produce medical, documentary and oral evidence of doctor who is treating schizophrenia of wife - Husband has..........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 13(1)(ia) -- Divorce - Cruelty - Any conduct which causes mental or physical harassment, disturbance, discomfort amounting to a general lack of well being and stability in marriage may amount to an act of cruelty...........
