Wife going to husband's office and abusing him is cruelty, rules HC

A wife visiting the office of her husband and creating a scene using abusive language would amount to cruelty and is ground for divorce, the Chhattisgarh High Court has ruled.

The court found that the wife of the 32-year-old man used to visit him in office and abuse him and create a scene.

It also found from the statement of the man and his sister that the wife used to publicly make allegations linking him with another woman in his office, and that she even sent a letter to the chief minister requesting him to be transferred out.


“In such a situation when a wife goes to the office premises of the husband, abuses him and accuses him of certain relation, naturally it would result into diminishing the image of the husband before the colleagues and the office stature will certainly go down," a division bench of Justices Goutam Bhaduri and Radhakishan Agrawal observed.

In December 2019, a Raipur family court had examined the case and ruled there were anough grounds for divorce. The woman challenged it saying the husband was creating false evidence for a divorce. The HC on August 18 this year upheld the ruling of the family court.