Husband Can’t Complain Of Wife’s Visits To Parents’ Home: Delhi HC [Read Judgment]

A wife is certainly entitled to visit her parents’ home and such a visit per se cannot be the reason for a husband to complain, the bench said.

The Delhi High Court has refused to grant divorce to a man who complained of his wife’s frequent visits to her parental home.

A wife is certainly entitled to visit her parents’ home and such a visit per se, cannot be the reason for a husband to complain, the bench of Justice Hima Kohli and Justice Deepa Sharma said.

The husband had approached the high court in appeal against family court order refusing his divorce plea. Of many grounds he urged in his attempt to prove cruelty, one was that ‘the frequent visits of his wife to her parental home without intimating him and his family members has caused him mental pain and anguish’.

Another contention was that due to a tense and vitiated atmosphere created by the wife, his father had suffered a heart attack within three months of his marriage and an angiography had to be done on him. “These conditions take a long time before they manifest,” the bench said rejecting the said ground as well.

He also alleged that his wife never respected his family members and she extended threats to them, used filthy and abusive language and had threatened him of dire consequences and that she is lady of quarrelsome nature who neglected their child and did not allow the appellant to play with him and failed to perform her domestic duties like cooking food, cleaning of house, washing clothes etc. “The very nature of pleas noted above are devoid of any specific act of cruelty,” the bench said brushing aside the allegations.