Reliance on WhatsApp chats alone insufficient to grant divorce on grounds of cruelty: Bombay HC
“Merely relying on the WhatsApp chat, the divorce decree cannot be granted, since it is not proved by leading evidence.”
Family Court appeal
Jharkhand High Court: Concealment of age and murder conviction before marriage amounts to mental cruelty, destroys trust
“The conduct of the wife by concealing the material fact about her age and her conviction of life in a murder case, before contracting marriage, has caused mental agony to the husband to such an extent that it is almost impossible for them to live together.”
Jharkhand HC: Divorce granted as husband’s blackmail with objectionable photos and threats to upload them on social media amounted to mental cruelty
“Such intimidation and infliction of emotional and psychological distress using wife’s past history to blackmail itself constitutes mental cruelty.”