The wife asking for a separate house or going to meet her mother or sister without informing her cannot be a ground for divorce. The Karnataka High Court made these remarks while dismissing a divorce case. The court said that asking for a separate house or going to meet the mother and sister is not cruelty. A bench of Justice Alok Aradhe and Justice S Vishwanath Shetty gave this verdict. An application was filed in the family court of the petitioner regarding the family dispute. According to the petitioner husband, he was married to a girl in the year 2002. Shortly after the marriage, his wife started demanding a separate house. According to the husband, he has to live with his widowed mother and younger brother and the responsibility of both of them is on his shoulder.
Widow cannot live except mother
The husband says that due to the responsibility of mother and brother, he cannot accept his wife’s demand for a separate house. The husband also says that his wife repeatedly goes to her mother and sister’s house without informing her mother and brother. According to her husband, her life has been ruined due to these habits. The husband also claims that his wife had left the house with her child in the year 2017 and did not return.
Wife has done fake case of dowry
Later his wife filed a case against him and his family under sections 498-A, 323, 504, 506 of the IPC besides sections 3 and 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961, however in the police investigation the husband and her The family members were found innocent in these cases.