Wife’s suicide threats amount to mental cruelty: HC

RAIPUR: The Chhattisgarh high court has observed that a woman’s repeated threats of dying by suicide amounts to mental cruelty towards her husband. Also, attempts at ‘self-harm’ and persistent pressure on the husband to convert his religion, too, amounted to mental cruelty, the court noted. A division bench of Justices Rajani Dubey and Amitendra Kishore Prasad on Thursday made the observations while upholding a family court order that granted divorce to a resident of Balod district in Chhattisgarh. The wife had challenged the June 2024 order. The bench stressed that cruelty isn’t physical alone and can include “conduct causing reasonable apprehension in the petitioner’s mind.” The court noted that the husband had lodged a written complaint with Gurur police station in Balod district