Call your spouse names at your own peril
The next time you have an argument with your spouse, mind your language. For, use of abuses such as haramzada (b*st*rd) and janwar (animal) is a valid ground for divorce.
Upholding the separation of doctors Seema and Alkesh Chaudhary, the Delhi high court (HC) pulled up the woman on Tuesday for using derogatory words during an altercation with her husband despite being a doctor and daughter of a Class-I gazetted officer.
“A highly-qualified doctor belonging to a reputed family is not expected to use such language. Considering the social status and educational level of the parties, the language used by the wife is enough to constitute mental cruelty to the husband,” Justice Kailash Gambhir said after listening to a taped conversation of the couple produce by Alkesh.
The doctors, who married on April 17, 1992, had a child in 1996. But things started going wrong soon after.
Aggrieved at the cruelty inflicted by Seema on various occasions, Alkesh moved court for a legal separation. He was soon granted divorce on the ground of cruelty. But Seema denied all allegations and challenged the order in the high court.
“In the present case, it is clear that despite forgiveness and tolerance on the part of the husband, the wife continued her vicious behaviour. From her callousness and brutal remarks about the husband and his family members, it is clear that her cruelty continued,” the court observed.
It also took note of the cruelty faced by the husband when the wife filed a criminal complaint against him with the women’s cell.
Concerned at the future of the couple’s child, HC said, “The child’s future would be marred in the operoseness of the legal battle. The child would bear the brunt of clashing egos. More often than not, in cases like the present one the acrimony of the spouses dims the hope of eternity of the holy union into nothingness.”
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