Making unfounded complaints by wife to police is to be treat

While reiterating that in matrimonial matters, making unfounded complaints to the police is to be treated as constituting mental cruelty, Delhi High Court granted divorce to a man who sought dissolution of marriage on the ground that his wife had filed several "false" complaints against him and his family members. A bench of justices Pradeep Nandrajog and V. Kameswar Rao concurred with the findings of the family court and rejected the wife’s plea challenging the trial court's order that ruled in favour of her husband. “We have no hesitation in holding that by filing numerous false complaints against Sanjay and his family members with the police and in the office of Sanjay that Sanjay and his family members used to demand dowry from her and treated her with cruelty when she failed to fulfill their demands and that Sanjay was having an illicit relation with his colleague, Suman has caused ‘mental cruelty’ to Sanjay thereby entitling him to a decree of divorce under Section 13(1)(ia) of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955” said the court. The court also dismissed the contention of the wife that her husband had harassed her for dowry and held that there was sufficient proof that the marriage did not involve any dowry.