Overview

• On August 5, a bench of Justices Vivek Rusia and Binod Kumar Dwivedi unanimously upheld the family court’s rejection of a constable’s plea for divorce on cruelty grounds.
• The High Court praised the wife’s perseverance and dignity, calling her an “ideal Indian wife” whose endurance reflects marriage as a sacred, eternal union.
• Justices found the husband’s allegations of cruelty and infidelity “very shallow and hollow” and noted that none of his relatives supported his case in court.
• Since living apart in 2006, the wife has remained in her joint family home with in-laws, maintaining her Mangalsutra and Sindoor as emblems of her marital duty.
• The ruling reinforces Hindu marital values by framing marriage as an indissoluble sanskara rooted in dharma rather than a contractual bond.