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Punjab and Haryana High Court: False Allegations of Sexual Assault Amount to Cruelty

Recently, the Punjab and Haryana High Court rendered a significant judgment, affirming that a wife’s fabrication of sexual assault accusations against her in-laws constitutes psychological abuse, warranting grounds for divorce as ruled... Read more »
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High Court Verdict: Lodging False Police Cases Amounts Cruelty

The Bombay High Court has ruled that lodging false and baseless cases with the police against the husband and his family members amounts to cruelty. Facts of the Case In this case,... Read more »
Delhi High Court

‘Calling husband a womanizer is cruelty’ High Court Approves Divorce

Publicly humiliating a man with false allegations and labeling him a “womanizer” within his workplace constitutes an act of extreme cruelty, as observed by the Delhi High Court. The court rendered this... Read more »
Marriages

Perceiving Minor Conflicts as Cruelty Poses Risks to Marriages: Allahabad HC

The Allahabad High Court has observed that if courts interpret minor conflicts in a marital relationship as “cruelty” within the framework of divorce law, numerous marriages might be at risk of dissolution,... Read more »

Irretrievably broken down marriage can be dissolved on the ground of cruelty: SC

In its judgement, the Supreme Court has held that under Section 13 (1)(ia) of the Hindu Marriage Act for the dissolution of marriage, the irretrievable breakdown of marriage can be read as... Read more »