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Denying divorce amounts to cruelty: Kerala high court
The Times of India | 17/02/2022 11:02 AM | Click to read full article
A spouse refusing to grant divorce on mutual consent in a failed marriage can be considered as cruelty, a division bench of Justice A Muhamed Mustaque held on February 4 after considering separate appeals filed by a couple.
In the judgment, the court said, "If one of the spouses is refusing to accord divorce on mutual consent after having convinced of the fact that the marriage failed, it is nothing but cruelty to spite the other spouse.
