The Calcutta High Court has ruled that a man can file for divorce if his wife forcibly separates him from his parents...
Digital Desk: The Calcutta High Court has ruled that a man can file for divorce if his wife forcibly separates him from his parents. The man can file a petition on the grounds of mental cruelty if he is forced to stay apart from his parents for no acceptable reason, the High Court added.
The judge made the statement while hearing a plea filed by a woman appealing a family court judgement giving her husband a divorce.
On March 31, a division bench comprising of justices Soumen Sen and Uday Kumar dismissed the petition, declaring that a son living with his parents was "absolutely normal in Indian culture and ethos," according to a report in the Times of India (TOI). The newspaper cited the High Court as declaring that it was the "pious obligation of the son to live and maintain the parents."
A West Midnapore family court in West Bengal granted Prashant Kumar Mandal and his wife Jharna a divorce in 2009. In order to challenge the divorce that had been granted on the grounds of cruelty, the woman went before the High Court.
However, she failed to receive a favourable judgement from the HC.
Continue Reading
