In a matrimonial house, a wife should not be treated as chattel or bonded labour and made to stay under conditions imposed by her husband, observed the Chhattisgarh High Court recently.
The Allahabad High Court recently held that forcing an estranged husband and wife to live together despite their intense hate towards each other amounts to cruelty, while granting the couple divorce.
The Calcutta High Court recently upheld a decree of divorce granted by the trial court in favour of a husband, who claimed divorce on the grounds of ‘cruelty’ suffered by him at the hands of his.
The Bench relied on a 2016 Supreme Court judgment which said that it is not a common practice for a Hindu son in India to get separated from his parents upon getting married, at the instance of the wife.