Chandigarh (Punjab): The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Friday made it clear that a false complaint by the wife against her husband and his family tantamount to 'matrimonial cruelty' and it entitles the husband to file for divorce.
A division bench of High Court Justices Ritu Bahri and Archana Puri passed this order while upholding the decision of the Rohtak Family Court and dismissed a woman's appeal against divorce. The couple had got married in February 2012 in Haryana's Rohtak district.
The court observed that the appellant wife has been making false complaints against her husband and his family members, having left the in-laws' house in less than three months post marriage. Not just that, the woman had also filed several complaints against her husband and his family members. However, the police in their investigation found that all the allegations made against the husband and his family were false.
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As per reports, the woman was not happy to live in the joint family of her husband in the village and pressurised him to take a separate house in Rohtak, away from his parents. However, when the husband was reluctant to move away, the enraged wife began threatening her husband and his family members in false dowry cases.
In a bid to pacify the woman, the husband's parents had even arranged a rented accommodation in Rohtak, so that the couple could live in peace. But then, the woman's family members began frequenting the house, much to the annoyance of the husband. When he spoke against this, the woman began brutally harassing and abusing him and his family.
The situation had worsened to such a state that the woman even went on to implicate the male members of her husband's family in sexual harassment cases. But an investigation in this regard led to all the complaints turn out to be false and baseless.
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