Husband Treating Wife As "Cash Cow" Amounts To Mental Cruelty, Says High Court
NDTV
The woman filed for divorce in 2017, she submitted bank account transaction records and other documents to prove that she had transferred Rs 60 lakh to him over the years.
The Karnataka High Court has granted divorce to a couple after it found that the husband had treated the wife like a 'cash cow.' In its recent judgement, a division bench of Justices Alok Aradhe and J M Khazi held that husband treating wife as 'cash cow' amounts to cruelty.
The woman had submitted bank account transaction records and other documents to prove that she had transferred Rs 60 lakh to him over the years.
The bench said, "it is evident that the respondent (husband) has treated the appellant as a cash cow and had a materialistic attitude towards the appellant. The Respondent had no emotional ties with the appellant. The attitude of the respondent in itself has caused mental agony and emotional trauma to the appellant which is sufficient to make out a ground of mental cruelty." A Family Court had refused to grant divorce and rejected her application in 2020. The wife then challenged the lower court order in the HC.
The high court bench set aside the lower court order saying, "The Family Court has grossly erred in not appreciating the version of the appellant (wife) and it ought to have been appreciated that the testimony of the appellant was not even put to cross examination." The couple were married in 1999 in Chikkamagaluru. They had a child in 2001. The wife applied for divorce in 2017.
