A Husband's Extra-Marital Affair Is Not Cruelty, Says Supreme Court

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A Husband's Extra-Marital Affair Is Not Cruelty, Says Supreme Court


Extra-marital affairs of a man and his wife's suspicion do not always amount to mental cruelty attracting the provision of abetment to suicide but can be a ground for grant of divorce, the Supreme Court said on Thursday.



The remarks were made in a case in which a woman committed suicide due to her husband's alleged extra-marital affairs and the other woman too ended her life due to humiliation.

The misery did not end here and later the mother and brother of the man's alleged paramour also committed suicide.


The apex court was dealing with an appeal filed by the man against his conviction and four-year sentence for causing harassment and mental cruelty to his wife which led her to commit suicide.

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