HC on Marriage: Abandoning Spouse Without Reason Cruelty, Constitutes Death of Spirit and Soul of Hindu Marriage, Says Allahabad High Court
The woman and her husband were married in 1989 and gave birth to a child in 1991. Later, the two parties separated and cohabited again for some time before separating again in 1999. The couple finally separated in 2001 and lived separately since then.
The Allahabad High Court recently said that leaving a spouse in a Hindu Marriage without any justifiable reason amounts to cruelty towards the spouse who has been left alone. "A Hindu marriage is a sacrament and not just a social contract where one partner abandons the other without reason or just cause or existing or valid circumstance necessitating that conduct, the sacrament loses its soul and spirit, though it may continue to hold its external form and body," the high court said. Gujarat's top court observed while hearing a plea filed by a woman against the grant of divorce by the judge of Family Court, Jhansi. As per a report in Live Law, the woman and her husband were married in 1989 and gave birth to a child in 1991. Later, the two parties separated and cohabited again for some time before separating again in 1999. The couple finally separated in 2001 and lived separately since then. HC on Divorce: When Husband Chooses To Live Away From His Parents, Wife’s Failure in Taking Care of Them Does Not Amount to Cruelty, Says Allahabad High Court.
'Hindu Marriage Is a Sacrament and Not Just a Social Contract'
Abandoning Spouse Without Reason Cruelty, Constitutes Death Of Spirit & Soul Of Hindu Marriage: Allahabad High Court | @UpasnaAgrawal01 https://t.co/hnNdMMYmMQ
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