Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 13(1)(ia) -- Divorce - Cruelty - Any treatment which causes a reasonable apprehension in the mind of the other spouse that it would be harmful to reside with the other spouse would amount to cruelty as a ground for divorce. ( Para 10)..........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 13(1)(ia) -- Divorce - Cruelty - Refusing to sever ties can also constitute mental cruelty where there has already been a long period of separation between the husband and wife...........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 13(1)(ia) -- Divorce - Cruelty - Any act of damage to reputation, social standing or work prospects by one spouse to the other would fall within the term "cruelty"...........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 13(1)(ia) -- Divorce - Cruelty - Petition by husband - Wife has initiated 7 proceedings against husband including 5 criminal cases u/s 498-A IPC and Dowry Prohibition Act - However, husband was acquitted of the charges - Husband lost his job as a teacher and is unable to find a new job by reason of criminal cases registered against him -..........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 13(1)(ia) -- Divorce - Cruelty - Petition by husband - Husband has to plead and prove the cruelty with specific instances by producing acceptable legal evidence - However, he failed to do so - Divorce petition rightly dismissed...........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 13(1)(ia) -- Divorce - Cruelty - Petition by husband - Mere lodging of complaint against husband for offence u/s 498-A IPC is not a cruelty - However, when said case ended in acquittal and wife did not prefer any appeal and husband was sent to jail during crime stage, it amounts to cruelty...........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 13(1)(ia) -- Divorce - Cruelty - Petition by husband - Marriage of husband with wife is second marriage and said fact is within the knowledge of wife - Initially marriage was not consummated but later on it was consummated - Parties are living separately since 2011 - Both the parties are educated and filed cases against each other - There..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 498A, 34, Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961, Section 3, 4 -- Cruelty - Dowry demand - Quashing of FIR - Allegations against father-in-law and mother-in-law - Omnibus hurling of abuses against accused - No specific overt act is indicated in the complaint qua accused as the entire narration in the complaint is the squabble between husband and wife..........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 13(1)(ia) -- Divorce - Cruelty - Denial by wife to make physical relationship with husband amounts to cruelty to husband...........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 13(1)(ia) -- Divorce - Cruelty - Petition by husband - Wife resided in her in-laws house for only 3 days and during this period there was no co-habitation between parties - It is proved on record that when father-in-law along with other relatives came to parental house of wife for taking her back to her in-laws house, then she did not go..........
