Chandigarh, April 7 -- A local court has granted divorce to a resident of Sector 44 who had filed a petition citing alleged extra-marital affairs of his wife and the misconduct of his in-laws.

In the arguments made by his counsel, it was alleged that after the wife, a private school teacher, left her marital home, she started making false and defamatory complaints against the petitioner. She also allegedly sent a defamatory letter to different authorities, her mother and some common relatives of both the parties,with an ill-intent to slander the petitioner husband.

Though initially in her cross-examination she denied having sent any such letter, when she was confronted with the copy of her cross-examination recorded in a prior guardians...