Supreme Court of India

Manisha Tyagi v. Deepak Kumar

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Reported as [2010] 2 S.C.R. 554
Bench V.S. Sirpurkar and Surinder Singh Nijjar JJ.
Decided 10 February 2010

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What the Court ordered

For the aforesaid reasons, we are unable to uphold C the judgment and the decree of the Division Bench.

Judgment, page 20

From the headnote

Hindu Marriage Act, 1955: s.13(1)(i-a) - Divorce - On ground of cruelty- Standard required to establish cruelty - Held: It would be sufficient to show that the conduct of one of the spouses is so abnormal and below the accepted norm that the other spouse could not 0 reasonably be expected to put up with it- To establish cruelty it is not necessary that physical violence should be used - Continued ill-treatment, cessation of marital intercourse, studied neglect, indifference of one spouse to the other may lead to an inference of cruelty. ss. 10 and 13 - Petition of husband for divorce on

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