Making unproven sexual allegations against husband is cruelty: HC
Unsubstantiated sexual allegations by wife against her husband and father-in-law amount to mental cruelty, ruled the Madras High Court. The court made the ruling while hearing a man's plea against a 2023 family court order which had dismissed his plea for divorce. The high court held that unproven allegations, though later withdrawn, were defamatory and caused irreparable mental agony.