Failure to dispel infidelity doubt is cruelty, grounds for divorce: HC
New Delhi, Nov. 2 -- The Delhi High Court has ruled that a spouse's continuous behaviour that creates reasonable apprehensions of infidelity in the other's mind, coupled with the failure to dispel such doubts, amounts to mental cruelty and constitutes sufficient grounds for divorce.
A bench of justices Anil Kshetarpal and Harish Vaidyanathan Shankar, in its October 29 order that was released on Friday, observed that when a spouse invests emotional intimacy, secrecy, and sustained communication in another person outside the marriage while maintaining a facade of propriety, it causes profound mental anguish, humiliation, and emotional abandonment.
The bench delivered the judgment while dealing with a woman's petition challenging a family cour...
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