Supreme Court · 2010 INSC 93 · Decided 10 February 2010
Manisha Tyagi v. Deepak Kumar
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2010 INSC 93 · [2010] 2 S.C.R. 554
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 5387/2007
- Decided
- 10 February 2010
- Bench
- V.S. SIRPURKAR, S.S. NIJJAR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Hindu Marriage Act Section 13(1), 13, 10
Headnote
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955: s.13(1)(i-a) - Divorce - On ground of cruelty- Standard required to establish cruelty - Held: It would be sufficient to show that the conduct of one of the spouses is so abnormal and below the accepted norm that the other spouse could not 0 reasonably be expected to put it is not necessary that physical violence should be used - Continued ill-treatment, cessation of marital intercourse, studied neglect, indifference of one spouse to the other may lead to an inference of cruelty. E ss. 10 and 13 - Petition of husband for divorce on ground of cruelty - Dismissed
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