Married Woman Asked To Do Household Work Not Cruelty: Bombay High Court
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The woman, in her complaint, had alleged she was was treated properly for a month after marriage, but thereafter, they began treating her like a "maid servant".
If a married woman is asked to do household work for the family, the same cannot be equated to the work of a domestic help and would not amount to cruelty, the Aurangabad bench of the Bombay High Court said while scrapping a case filed by a woman against her estranged husband and his parents for domestic violence and cruelty.
A division bench of Justices Vibha Kankanwadi and Rajesh Patil, on October 21, quashed the First Information Report or police case filed against the man and his parents.
The woman, in her complaint, had alleged she was was treated properly for a month after marriage, but thereafter, they began treating her like a "maid servant".
She also claimed that her husband and his parents, a month after the marriage, started demanding Rs 4 lakh to buy a car. In her complaint, the woman said she was then subjected to mental and physical harassment by her husband over this demand.
