Mental cruelty by wife

Hi Friend,

it is somewhat similar to my situation.

I judged these consequences and wrote a intimation of false dowry case to the commisioner.

As expected my cruel wife along with my father in law went and registered as dowry harrassment.

Since i have shown my papers , i got escaped.Moreover the counselling session will dig a lot whether there is a chance of asking dowry.

If in case you have to relieve from her, first of all you should not live together because you cannot apply for divorce if you are staying in the same house.

Create some allegations or find some mistakes and report to police station.

Allegation should be handled with allegations only.

While seeking answer to the queries here, the facts are to be disclosed so that correct opinion/advice can be given.  In this case,whether the boy had an extra marital affairs with somebody as alleged by his wife?,  Whether he ill-treated her with cruel and intolerable behavior? What was the reason to start the marital life belatedly i.e., after two months of their marriage?  If the allegations by the boy that the girl had all bad habits and that were known to the boy before marriage itself, he could have stood stubborn against the marriage, he does not have to sympathise the girl's mother's heart disease nor he should have worried about the girl's suicide drama, whether the boy was not matured enough to take a firm decision about his life and the future thereon?  Now the problem is whether he can apply for divorce within 1 year of the marriage, he can very well do it but before that he has to obtain permission from the court on an application u/s 14(1) of the HM Act,which will seek the respondent's objection, if any and shall be decided after that.  If he is getting abusive/threatening calls from Association or any one else, he can lodge a complaint against the erring  people before the local police station(preferably cyber crime wing) with evidence.  Next whether she can file dowry harassment case, if she feels that it is a weapon to be used against you she may proceed with that that also, I think by now her misguiders would have flung into action by mis-advicing her on all the probabilities against you, hence be alert.  Instead why dont you try for  reconciliation through marriage counsellors and arrange for a continuation of the broken marriage/married life.  Always try to save the marriage with best and sincere efforts, only after all your efforts fail, go for next step as per the circumstances.

There was no extra marital affair as alleged by wife. They had illegally tracked the cellphone of my friend and found out few messages been sent out to one of his friend who is a girl. They treated it as an extra marital affair. This is the fact. There was no way she was ill-treated. It was started after 2 months as he was not ready to live with her after all the mental trauma that was caused to him.

@querist - i really sympathise and empathise about your friend's dilemma.

I am not a Lawyer, nor do i profess to be one, but i'm certain if your friend goes for a divorce now, then it will inevitably bring on IPC 498a charge.

I have seen how this act is being used by dishonest Indian women more and more now. 15 rejected proposals should have warned your friend that this woman was trouble - she and her family had a higher agenda - namely your friends assets, money and the shirt off his back - oh and his soul too - these trolls won't stop at anything once you put a ring on their fingers.

My advice - and it is only advice - tell your friend to record any rows they have - hopefully she will confess about false dowry allegations etc on them. Tell him to collect any evidence of his expenditure, her 'drinking problem' and anything that will prove his innocence in this marriage. Once he has enough evidence then he should leave her and file for divorce stating 'mental cruelty'. She will file a FIR without a doubt, but being forearmed is being forewarned and he will have bullets to fire to smash her false accusations.

Good luck to him and i hope he finds love and peace with another person - there still are some lovely Indian ladies out there who have had a good upbringing and believe in the sanctity of marriage.