The Punjab and Haryana High Court recently held that a wife making false allegations of sexual assault against her in-laws constitutes mental cruelty, Bar&Bench has reported.
“Levelling the allegations of sexual assault against all the male members of the family and the factum of them having been found innocent during the investigation, clearly amounts to cruelty,” the Court said.
The court gave the ruling while upholding a Sonipat court’s decision to grant divorce to a man on the ground of cruelty in March 2024.
The judgment was passed on an appeal moved by the wife against grant of divorce. She alleged that her husband and his family had been harassing and torturing her for bringing less dowry.
The husband said before the family court that his wife used to mistreat him and his family since the very beginning of the marriage and also used to pick up quarrels on trivial matters. He also said that she has a relationship outside the marriage.
