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Insulting husband, alleging adultery amounts to cruelty, rules Bombay HC
Hindustan Times Gurugram
|July 19, 2025
Refusal to have a physical relationship and making allegations of extra-marital relations is also cruelty by the wife BOMBAY HIGH COURT
MUMBAI: The refusal by a woman to have a physical relationship with her husband and accusing him of having an extramarital affair amounts to cruelty towards the man, the Bombay high court has said while refusing relief toa woman challenging a family court's divorce order.
A bench of justice Revati Mohite-Dete and Neela Gokhale on Thursday said that the woman's behaviour, of insulting the husband in front of his friends and ill-treating his employees, will cause mental agony to him and can be construed as “cruelty” against the husband.
This story is from the July 19, 2025 edition of Hindustan Times Gurugram.
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