Calling Husband Impotent In Public Amounts To Cruelty, Ground For Divorce: Delhi High Court
The Delhi High Court has granted divorce to a man on the grounds of mental cruelty by his wife.
The Delhi HC bench of Justices Suresh Kumar Kait and Neena Bansal Krishna held that a wife openly humiliating her husband by calling him ¡®impotent¡¯ and discussing their sexual life in the presence of family members amounts to mental cruelty and thus can be a ground for divorce.
The court made the observation while hearing an appeal by the husband against a Family Court order which refused to grant him divorce.
Marital difference over not having children
According to the plea, the couple got married in the year 2011, but they couldn't conceive naturally after which they had to resort to In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) treatment.?
Despite having undergone this IVF procedure on two occasions, they were unable to become parents.
Husband was medically fit
According to the husband, it was his, wife who suffered from medical complications, but she blamed him.?
The husband alleged that the wife insulted him in front of her parents and other family members by alleging that he was impotent.?
Wife should respect husband's privacy?
The court noted that a wife should respect the privacy of the husband and is expected to be more discreet.
Such disclosures even to the family members are a source of humiliation, the Court said.
The court concluded that after two failed IVF procedures, the wife became disgruntled and went away to her parental home.?
Filed to prove dowry harassment?
The court further noted that while the wife had leveled dowry harassment allegations against her husband, she failed to corroborate the claims.
"We, on the appreciation of the entire evidence as led by the parties, are compelled to conclude that the appellant had been subjected to cruelty," the court said while setting aside the Family Court order and granting him divorce under Hindu Marriage Act,1955.?
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