Don’t meddle in daughter’s married life: HC to parents

NEW DELHI: The interference of parents in the married life of their daughters has become a major reason for discord between young couples after marriage, the Delhi high court has rued.

While upholding a divorce decree, Justice Kailash Gambhir expressed concern over cases landing up in courts that show frequent rifts between couples due to parents’ persistent interference in their daughters’ married life.

HC granted divorce to a man on the grounds of his in-laws’ frequent interference in his marital life and noted that parents should “draw a line” and let their daughters lead a happy, married life.

“The present case is an unfortunate example where the parents of the appellant, instead of putting out the fire have fuelled and fanned it,” the court said, dismissing an appeal filed by the wife challenging the lower court’s order granting the man decree of divorce.

According to the husband, the differences with his wife started a few months after their marriage in 1990 due to frequent interference of his in-laws. He alleged that he was even hit publicly by his father-in law two years after his marriage.