{"id":230313,"date":"2020-06-01T11:33:34","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T06:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=230313"},"modified":"2020-06-05T10:45:59","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T05:15:59","slug":"ker-hc-wifes-persistent-effort-to-separate-husband-from-family-amounts-to-cruelty-divorce-granted-in-favour-of-husband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/06\/01\/ker-hc-wifes-persistent-effort-to-separate-husband-from-family-amounts-to-cruelty-divorce-granted-in-favour-of-husband\/","title":{"rendered":"Ker HC | Wife&#8217;s persistent effort to separate husband from family amounts to cruelty: Divorce granted in favour of husband"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Kerala High Court:\u00a0<\/strong>A Division Bench of A.M. Shaffique and Mary Joseph, JJ., granted a decree of divorce in favour of husband on the ground of cruelty by the wife.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Decree for dissolution of marriage was sought by the petitioner but declined by Family Court and the same is in challenge.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Background<\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Marital relationship of petitioner and respondent\u00a0 did not last long due to the quarrelsome nature of respondent who found pleasure in quarelling with petitioner and his mother.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Later she started declaring that she would commit suicide. <span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">She used to call the petitioner &#8216;dog&#8217; and &#8216;shameless creature&#8217;. She used to undermine his person stating that he is not a fit person to be her husband and insult him by beating him in front of his relatives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thus transpiring from the above, Original petition seeking for a decree for dissolution for marriage was filed wherein, allegations of cruelty were denied by the respondent. It was further urged that <span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">petitioner was a drunkard, who is in the habit of coming home late in the house in intoxicated state, he used to assault her and the child and also destroyed the tea &#8211; poy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On perusal of the circumstances, in family court&#8217;s opinion there was no basis for the petitioner to contend that reunion was impracticable due to irrecoverable break down of the marriage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thus, the present appeal was filed and dissolution of marriage was sought on ground of cruelty.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Petitioner&#8217;s counsel submitted that dislike of respondent towards his mother often resulted in quarrels, which impacted loss of peace and tranquility in their life.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Decision<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Court found that respondent has no case that petitioner was a drunkard when he married her. <span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">Evidence indicates that the respondent and the petitioner&#8217;s mother were not cordial and clashes were frequent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is natural for a wife in that scenario to make persistent effort to constrain her husband to be separated from the family life and that would undoubtedly be tortuous for him.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 13\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the case on hand the petitioner&#8217;s turning to be a drunkard can only be taken as the natural outcome of the pressure exerted on him by the respondent to have a separate residence to the exclusion of petitioner&#8217;s mother.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 13\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 14\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">No family is totally devoid of clashes among members constituting it. It is common for elders to scold and sometimes abuse youngsters. Making a daughter in law to do the house hold\/domestic work is also not something unusual.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thus in Court&#8217;s opinion, Family Court&#8217;s decision was highly unjustified it took role of a councilor rather than an adjudicator.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hence in the opinion of the present bench, <span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">evidence as discussed above is satisfactory to take a view that the respondent has treated the petitioner with cruelty sufficient enough to grant a decree for dissolution of marriage in his favour.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 16\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Judgment of the Family Court under challenge deserves to be reversed. [Ranjith P.C. v. Asha Nair. P, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/FbV0s4KR\"><b>2020 SCC OnLine Ker 1751<\/b><\/a> , decided on 20-05-2020]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kerala High Court:\u00a0A Division Bench of A.M. 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