Chandigarh: The Punjab and Haryana High Court has upheld the divorce judgment given by a family court in favor of a man. While upholding this decision, the High Court said that calling the husband ‘Hijra’ is tantamount to mental cruelty. The Court said that if the findings recorded by the Family Court are examined in the light of the decisions of the High Court, it emerges that the acts and conduct of the appellant-wife amount to cruelty. Calling the respondent husband a eunuch and telling his mother that she has given birth to a eunuch is tantamount to mental cruelty. A division bench of Justices Sudhir Singh and Jasjit Singh Bedi was hearing a woman’s plea against the divorce granted in favor of her husband by a family court in July this year. The order said that the overall acts of the appellant-wife and Considering the conduct and also taking into account the fact that both the parties have been living separately for the last six years. The court found that the relations between the two parties had deteriorated so much that they could no longer be improved. Both of them were married in December 2017. The husband, who had filed for divorce, had claimed that his wife used to ‘wake up late’. She would ask her mother to send lunch to her room on the first floor and would call her (mother) upstairs four to five times a day. He didn’t care at all that his mother was suffering from arthritis.
wife addicted to watching porn videos
The man alleged that his wife was addicted to watching porn videos and used to taunt him for not being physically healthy. She wanted to marry someone else. The woman denied the allegations, claiming that her husband could not produce any evidence to prove that she watched pornographic videos. She also accused her in-laws of giving her drugs.
Wife’s lawyer gave this argument
The lawyer appearing for the woman argued that the family court did not take into account the fact that the husband and his family committed cruelty against the woman. The order said that the man’s mother, in her testimony, said that her son was called ‘Hijra’ by his wife. It said that on the other hand, the allegations of giving intoxicants to the wife and keeping her under the influence of a ‘tantrik’ could not be proved by the wife.