Now trying to end your life can end your marriage
January 4 2010
The Bombay High Court has held that repeated threats and attempts at suicide is tantamount to mental cruelty and can therefore be a ground for seeking divorce. This judgment will provide the threatened spouse with some relief.
The Bench, comprising Justices Sharad Bobde and S.J. Kathawala, declared that it was not possible for a couple to maintain a peaceful married life if one spouse repeatedly threatened to commit suicide in public or at home.
The court was hearing a case against the judgement of a Pune family court that had granted a husband a divorce in 2002 on the . . .
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