Bilaspur: The High Court has considered mental and physical cruelty to wife and family for the husband’s habit of drinking excessive alcohol in the district and irresponsible towards the family. The court has accepted the wife’s divorce plea, dissolving the marriage.
The woman, a resident of Janjgir Champa district, was married on 7 June 1991. The petitioner was studying at the time of marriage and she wanted to continue studying even after marriage. The husband and his family started protesting and tortured him. The husband was harassing her otherwise including excessive drinking. Even after the birth of children, there was no change in husband’s behavior. The woman is working as a teacher to run the house. For 29 years of marriage, the wife made every effort to save the family. Even after this, the wife started living separately from her husband with children when there was no improvement.