Wife Visiting Husband's Office And Abusing Him Is Cruelty: High Court

"The judgment and decree passed by the family court do not require any interference and we affirm the finding arrived at by the family court", the high court bench said.

The Chhattisgarh High Court has observed that the act of a wife visiting the office of her husband and using abusive language would amount to cruelty as it upheld a Raipur family court's ruling granting divorce to a man.

A division bench of Justices Goutam Bhaduri and Radhakishan Agrawal, while delivering judgement on an appeal filed by the woman challenging the family court's order, also said a complaint by the wife against her husband, a government official, to a minister seeking his transfer on the ground of illicit relation with a female colleague without any substance, too, would amount to cruelty.

The High Court delivered the judgement on August 18.

The 32-year-old man, a resident of the Dhamtari district, had married the woman, a widow (34) and Raipur resident, in 2010. Later, the man filed a plea in the Raipur family court seeking divorce citing various grounds, one of them being that she would abuse and prevent him from meeting his parents and other family members.