Repeated suicide threats by spouse amount to cruelty: High Court grants divorce

While granting divorce to a man from Thane, the Bombay High Court observed that when threats of suicide are given by a spouse repeatedly, whether through words, signs or gestures, it becomes impossible for the other partner to continue in the matrimonial relationship in a peaceful environment.

The bench of Chief Justice Chandrashekhar and Justice Gautam A Ankhad said that it is well-settled, as held by the Supreme Court, that threats of suicide by a spouse amount to cruelty.

"When such conduct is repeated, whether through words, signs or gestures, it becomes impossible for the other spouse to continue in the matrimonial relationship in a peaceful environment. The absence of a police complaint cannot, in every case, be treated as a circumstance against the aggrieved spouse, as complaints