The Karnataka High Court ruled that baseless accusations of husband on wife for adultery and questioning the paternity of a child amount to mental cruelty, imposing a fine on a man for filing a divorce petition with such allegations. The court also stated that this behavior gives sufficient cause for the wife to leave her husband.
The High Court also reviewed a divorce decree granted to a man in 2011. The husband accused his wife of staying with her parents often, quarreling, adultery, and black magic. The Family Court granted divorce based on cruelty, but the wife challenged it in the High Court. The wife’s counsel argued that the family court accepted allegations of drug administration and black magic without evidence. The wife denied staying at her parents’ house for 15 days, and the husband’s allegations were unsupported. The court ruled that the husband’s alleged cruelty did not justify divorce unless proven, and instead found that the husband had caused mental cruelty to his wife and imposed a fine of ₹10,000.
NAME : Kavya Jaggi , COURSE : B.B.A.LL.B 5th Semester , COLLEGE : Jai Narain Vyas University, intern under legal vidhiya
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