BILASPUR: While settling a domestic matter, the Chhattisgarh High Court has observed that the act of a wife to visit the office of her husband and create scene using abusive language would amount to cruelty as it upheld a Raipur family court's ruling granting divorce to a man.

A division bench of Justices Goutam Bhaduri and Radhakishan Agrawal, while delivering judgement on an appeal filed by the woman challenging the family court's order, also said complaint by the wife against her husband, a government official, to a minister seeking his transfer on the ground of illicit relation with a female colleague without any substance, too, would amount to cruelty.

The High Court delivered the judgment on August 18. The 32-year-old man, a resident of Dhamtari district, had married the woman, a widow (34) and Raipur resident, in 2010. Later, the man filed a plea in the Raipur family court seeking divorce citing various grounds, one of them being that she would abuse and prevent him from meeting his parents and other family members.

In December, 2019, the family court, after evaluating facts and evidence on record, allowed the application of the husband, thereby granting him a decree of divorce. Subsequently, the woman challenged the decision in the HC. During the HC hearing, advocate Shishir Shrivastava, who appeared for the woman, submitted that the family court failed to appreciate the fact that the wife was treated with cruelty by her husband.

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