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NEW DELHI: Falsely accusing a spouse of having an extramarital affair and denying parentage of children amounts to severe mental cruelty,the Delhi High Court has ruled.
The decision was delivered by a Division Bench comprising Justice Suresh Kumar Kait and Justice Neena Bansal Krishna, who upheld a family court’s verdict that denied a husband’s plea for divorce on grounds of alleged cruelty by his wife.
The court said that making baseless accusations against a spouse, especially involving character and fidelity, and further rejecting the children’s legitimacy inflicts profound mental anguish and damages the matrimonial bond irreparably.
The Bench noted that such actions represent the gravest form of insult and cruelty, disqualifying the accuser from obtaining a divorce on these grounds.
