Dowry frame-up is cruelty against husband

January 21, 2008 New Delhi:

A city court, while granting divorce to a husband has held that his wife’s false allegations of dowry harassment against him amount to cruelty. In this case the husband had sought a divorce from his wife to whom he had been married to 33 years as he claimed that his wife had been cruel to him by lodging several false complaints against him. Additional district judge Atul Kumar Garg, said in a recent order: ‘‘It has been proved that the wife has treated the husband with cruelty as no person expects misbehaviour from his wife and to send him to jail by lodging several complaints.’’ Admitting the divorce plea of the husband, who spent a few days in jail due to his wife’s false complaints, the court observed that his wife had in her testimony denied levelling dowry charges against him. ‘‘By claiming this, she belied her own allegations levelled against her husband in various other judicial and quasi-judicial fora,’’ the court said. The couple’s children had also spoken in favour of their father before the Delhi Police’s Crime Against Women (CAW) cell. TNN

Source :>> TOI,pg11: Delhi Edition 21/01/2008