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Attraction to brother-in-law is cruelty:Bombay HC

Attraction to brother-in-law is cruelty:Bombay high court

 

 

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Not allowing the husband to consummate the marriage and showing “improper interest” towards the brother-in-law amounts to cruelty and is a legitimate ground for divorce, stated a ruling passed by the Bombay high court this week.

The high court dissolved the seven-year-old marriage of a Pune-based businessman by granting him a decree of divorce.

The couple, who had tied the knot in November, 2002, had stayed together for only six months.

The husband, in his appeal, had stated that during their honeymoon in Goa, his wife had revealed to him that she was in love with someone else and had been forced to marry. The husband also alleged that the wife did not allow him to consummate the marriage.

It was further alleged by the husband that after returning from the honeymoon, the wife quarrelled with him over petty issues. “She also openly declared her attraction towards my brother,” alleged the husband.

The husband’s appeal stated that on February 13, 2003, when only his brother was at home and their cousin was in the next room, the wife had gone to him under the pretext of serving food. She then sat next to him on the sofa and started getting intimate with him. “My brother raised an alarm and my cousin came running and was shocked to see her clinging to my brother,” stated the husband’s appeal.

In her defence, the wife had argued that the husband and the in-laws had treated her cruelly, as she was under-educated and belonged to a poor family. She also told the court that her husband and in-laws threw her out of the house on March 25, 2003 and since then she has not been allowed to return.

The husband had first moved the family court in Pune, seeking divorce on the ground of cruelty This was rejected in April, 2005. The high court on May 6 overturned the family court’s ruling and granted divorce to the husband.

The court in its order observed that the wife tried to be physically close to the brother-in-law, followed him into his bedroom under the pretext of some work, and shared dirty jokes with him. Such gestures left the brother-in-law embarrassed, who then requested her to keep away from him, noted the court.

“The allegations of cruelty made against the wife are serious enough and would strike at the very foundation of the marriage. The incidents must have shocked the husband, causing mental anguish and extreme hardship to him. This conduct would undoubtedly amount to mental cruelty,” observed the division bench of Justice AP Deshpande and Justice Rekha Sondurbaldota. The judges also remarked, “It is obvious from the records and proceedings that there is hardly any life left in the marriage of the parties. Their married life lasted only for six months and they have been living separately for the last seven years.”



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Jamai Of Law (propra)     23 February 2011

Unbelievable!!! Looks likea hindi movie scene...

 

 

But...Difficult to make opinion on either side!!! Anything may be true!!

 

 

This could be a 'Set-up'/'Frame-up' ..... call somebody in the room...and cry and tear one's own cloths !!

Brother, cousin of husband ...............all may be conspirators to mollify the character of female and credibility her plea!!!

 

OR

 

Also ...if there is any credibility in the plea of husband....All these things happen when other party also folds the sleeves up to teach te same tactics to other (and to a surpise to opposite party.. doesn't buckle or give up under stress)

if one party starts to make reckless(concocted) allegations....Then wrong tactics boomrang sometimes!

 

 

The mistake the wife did was...probabbly...that she might have made some reckless allegations.

 

If one wants to save marriage i.e. divorce plea to burst out....subsequently it may or may not result in co-habitation...but to the least........... if  a respondent wants to avoid stamp of the 'divorce'........then in that case............... one should be using a very different tactics!!!!

 

 

All this happenend in 'Amcha Poona' and  'Amcha Mumbai'!!! .......................... My friends say that in these two cities (no offence is intended..please......jai maharashtra!!!)  a lot of 'match fixing' happens in matrimonial cases and defendent laywers also known to be throwing the 'wicket' even for easy wide balls!!

And Petitioner lawyers also concede to give a little more alomony if it settles out of court!! Which is no bad actually!!

 

 

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