{"id":3311,"date":"2014-10-20T10:10:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T10:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/man-granted-divorce-after-cruel-wife-refused-to-nurse-him-through-chickenpox\/"},"modified":"2014-10-20T10:10:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T10:10:00","slug":"man-granted-divorce-after-cruel-wife-refused-to-nurse-him-through-chickenpox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/man-granted-divorce-after-cruel-wife-refused-to-nurse-him-through-chickenpox\/","title":{"rendered":"Man granted divorce after \u2018cruel\u2019 wife refused to nurse him through chickenpox"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An Indian woman who failed to nurse her husband when he had chickenpox was guilty of “mental cruelty”, Indian judges have ruled.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Dr Prashant Khopkar, 46, and his wife Sangeeta, 42, had been estranged after she had a series of arguments with her mother-in-law.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Their dispute continued after Sangeeta Khopkar was admitted to hospital with high blood pressure when she was pregnant with their second child. When she was discharged, her mother-in-law would not allow her to return to their extended family home.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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But when Dr Khopkar later fell ill with chickenpox, he expected his wife to nurse him. Her failure to do so, he claimed, amounted to \u201cmental cruelty\u201d.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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His wife had not wanted a divorce, only to live separately from his parents, and had made a court application for the \u201crestitution of conjugal rights\u201d. Her husband rejected it and sought a divorce.<\/div>\n
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Ruling on her appeal, the judges upheld her husband\u2019s application for divorce on grounds of the \u201cagony\u201d he suffered when she failed to nurse him.<\/div>\n
“The respondent after having suffered from chickenpox was required to have outside food [takeaways] for a period of almost nine months,” the judges said. “The agony and plight of the respondent during the process of recovery cannot be ignored.\u201d<\/div>\n
Women\u2019s rights campaigners said the ruling highlighted the subordinate position of women in Indian marriages and the legal expectation that they will act as servants to their husbands.<\/div>\n
\u201cIt shows the clich\u00e9 of rules for husbands and wives in the Hindu religion where she is in a subordinate position and that is there in the judgment,\u201d said senior lawyer and campaigner Vrinda Grover.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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