Supreme Court of India
K. Srinivas Rao v. D.A. Deepa
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What the Court ordered
We hold that the respondent- C wife has caused by her conduct mental cruelty to the appellant h usband and the marriage has irretrievably broken down.
Judgment, page 21
From the headnote
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955: c ss.13(1)(i-a) and (b) - Petition for dissolution of marriage on grounds of cruelty and desertion - 'Cruelty' - Explained - Held: In the instant case, the conduct of respondent-wife in filing a complaint making unfounded, indecent and defamatory allegation against her mother-in-law, in filing 0 revision seeking enhancement of the sentence awarded to the appellant-husband, and filing and pursuing litigations against appellant-husband and his parents indicates that she made all attempts to ensure that he and his parents are put in jail and he is removed from his job…
Authorities it was built on
- 2003 B.S. Joshi and Ors. v. State of Haryana and Anr.
- 2007 Samarghosh v. Jaya Ghosh
- 2006 Naveen Kohli v. Neelu Kohli
- 2005 Durga Prasanna Tripathy v. Arundhatl Tripathy
- 2003 Vijay Kumar Rama Chandra Bhate v. Neela Vijay Kumar Bhate
- 1993 V. Bhagat v. Mrs. D. Bhagat
- 2000 G.V. Rao v. L.H.V. Prasad and Ors.
- 2010 Ramgopal & Anr. v. State of M.P. & Anr.
Where later benches applied it
- 2021 Sivasankaran v. Santhimeenal
- 2024 Rinku Baheti v. Sandesh Sharda
- 2019 R. Srinivas Kumar v. R. Shametha
- 2015 Ramchander v. Ananta
Of those, 1 relied on · 3 referred to
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