The Bench stated that the spouse’s proof concerning repeated quarrels, verbal abuse, emotional neglect, the husband’s suspicious and possessive conduct, the events residing individually underneath the identical roof, his alleged habits and failed makes an attempt at reconciliation needed to be assessed together with the husband’s personal admissions and the encompassing circumstances.
It rejected the husband’s competition that the spouse’s earlier Part 498-A IPC criticism, which had resulted in his acquittal, ought to itself be handled as matrimonial cruelty.
“The mere submitting of a felony criticism by one partner towards the opposite doesn’t, in each case, quantity to matrimonial cruelty,” the Bench held.
It additional noticed that an acquittal in felony proceedings can not, by itself, result in a conclusion that the criticism was false or malicious.
