The Chhattisgarh High Court has upheld a family court order granting divorce to a man whose wife insulted him by calling him a “paaltu chuha” (pet rat) for refusing to leave his parents, according to a report by Bar and Bench.

The Court said the wife’s conduct of repeatedly pressuring her husband to abandon his parents amounted to mental cruelty.

“This conduct cannot be considered benign... it underscores mental cruelty, particularly in the context of Indian joint family values, where compelling a spouse to forsake his parents is held as cruelty,” the Bench of Justice Rajani Dubey and Justice Amitendra Kishore Prasad observed.

THE CASE

The couple married in 2009 and had a child together. In 2016, the husband approached court seeking divorce, accusing his wife of cruelty and desertion.

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