Defaming husband, calling him 'womaniser and alcoholic' without substantiation amount to cruelty: Bombay HC
The Hindu
The Bench said the wife's conduct in making unwarranted and false allegations against her husband's character results in damage to his reputation in society and this amounts to cruelty
The Bombay High Court has said defaming husband and calling him a womaniser and alcoholic without substantiating the allegations amount to cruelty, and upheld a family court order dissolving the marriage of a Pune-based couple.
A Division Bench of Justices Nitin Jamdar and Sharmila Deshmukh in its order passed on October 12 dismissed an appeal filed by a 50-year-old woman, challenging a November 2005 decree passed by a family court in Pune dissolving her marriage to a retired Army official.
The man died pending hearing of the HC appeal following which the court directed for his legal heir to be added as a respondent.
The woman in her appeal claimed her husband was a womaniser and alcoholic and due to these vices she was deprived of her conjugal rights.
The Bench said the wife's conduct in making unwarranted and false allegations against her husband's character results in damage to his reputation in society and this amounts to cruelty.
The HC in its order noted that apart from her own statement, the woman has not produced any evidence to substantiate her allegations.
The deceased man's lawyer told the court that the petitioner woman had caused mental agony to her husband by making false and defamatory allegations against him.
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