A mother had secretly arranged the marriage of her 18-year-old daughter with her brother (the daughter’s maternal uncle), who was a 32-year-old divorcee. The important thing in the case is that this brother of the woman was earlier married to her husband’s niece, but that marriage was broken and the niece had also filed a police complaint against her husband. The court said that if a wife secretly arranges her daughter’s marriage without informing her husband, then it is cruelty to that husband. The court also said that this matter can also be a ground for divorce by the husband. The division bench of High Court judges Justice CV Karthikayan and K Rajasekhar gave this decision while hearing a family case.
According to the Bar & Bench report, the court said in its judgment, “As a father, we can feel the pain of the appellant. He never knew that his wife and daughter had left the house. After the marriage, the father could not even take any step. The mental agony he must have gone through at that time can never be compensated.” While hearing the case, Madras High Court made strict remarks and said that in such circumstances the husband suffers a lot of mental distress.
The High Court had rejected the order of the Family Court
In the case the court also found that the wife’s behavior was cruel. She not only humiliated her husband publicly, but she also complained about him to his superiors, making it difficult for him to live with her. The family court had rejected the husband’s divorce petition and granted his right to live with his wife. However, the High Court canceled this order of the Family Court and issued a divorce decree in favor of the husband. The High Court said that the trial court’s method of examining and weighing the acts of cruelty committed by the wife was not sufficient.
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This case is of ‘G Sridhar vs S Komala Kumari’. The two were married in 1997 and have a son and a daughter. The controversy started when the wife took her 18-year-old daughter to Bengaluru for a week and secretly arranged her marriage with his own brother. Neither the husband nor his son knew about this marriage.
The person with whom the mother had arranged her daughter’s marriage, that is, her brother, was a 32-year-old man who was already divorced. His first marriage was also to the niece of a close relative in the family, which was broken and a police complaint was also filed against that person. In view of all these things, the division bench of Justice CV Karthikayan and Justice K Rajasekhar said that the unimaginable mental anguish and pain that the husband must have endured as a father can be imagined. The court clarified that the issue here is not whether the marriage was for the welfare of the daughter or not, but the issue is that a father was completely kept out of such a major decision of his daughter’s life.
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