Supreme Court of India
Ram Narain Gupta v. Smt. Rameshwari Gupta
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What the Court ordered
We hold that mental illness should be thought and spoken of less in terms of disease entities than in terms of personality disorganization.
Judgment, page 15
From the headnote
Hindu Marriaf(e Act, 1955-Section J3(J)(iii)-Dissolution of marriage-All mental disorders not recognised as grounds for grant of decree-Degree of severity or acuteness of-To be proved-Burden of proof on the spouse who alleges-Mere branding of a person as Schizaphrenic not enough. The appellant and respondent married in 1977. In 1983, the appellant filed a suit for dissolution of the marriage, alleging that his wife was suffering from severe mental disorder, psychiatrically recog nised as 'Schizophrenia' which rendered her unsociable and despite competent professional treatment, her condition
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