KOLKATA: The Calcutta High Court has recently ruled that a husband has the right to file for divorce on grounds of mental cruelty if his wife tried to compel him to separate from his parents without justifiable reason.
The court added it was the “pious obligation of the son to live and maintain the parents”, adding a son living with his parents was “absolutely normal in Indian culture and ethos”. Saying this, the division bench of justices Soumen Sen and Uday Kumar on March 31 turned down a woman’s plea challenging a family court’s decision to grant her husband divorce.
