Charges by estranged spouse affecting other’s career amounts to mental cruelty: Supreme Court

Allegations of an estranged spouse which has the effect of sullying the other’s reputation and career amounts to ‘mental cruelty’ and forms a ground for divorce, the Supreme Court said in a recent judgment. The result of this ‘mental cruelty’ must be such that continuation of marital relationship would be impossible. In other words, the wronged person can hardly be expected to condone the other.