Indore: The Madhya Pradesh High Court, while allowing a woman’s divorce plea, said that forcing the wife to leave her job and live as per his wish and style amounts to cruelty.
A division bench comprising Chief Justice Suresh Kumar Kait and Justice Sushrut Arvind Dharmadhikari said this while hearing a plea by a 33-year-old woman challenging an order of the trial court dismissing her plea for divorce.
Husband mentally harassing to leave job, live with him: wife
The woman, who works as a manager with a central government undertaking, claimed in her plea before the trial court that her husband was mentally harassing her to leave her job and forcing her to live with him in Bhopal.
The bench, while setting aside the family court order, said that it is the wish of they couple if they want to live together but neither a husband nor a wife can force the other side not to do a job or do any job as per the choice of the spouse.
Forcing wife to leave job, live as per his wish and style cruelty: HC
“Whether husband or wife wants to live together, it is their wish. Neither husband nor wife can force the other side not to do a job or do any job as per the choice of the spouse. In the present case, the husband compelled his wife to leave the government job till he gets a job. In this manner, forcing the wife to leave her job and live as per his wish and style amounts to cruelty,” the bench said.
Couple got married in 2014
Lawyer Raghavendra Singh Raghuvanshi, who represented the woman told news agency PTI that the couple, after getting married in 2014, started preparing for government recruitment exams while staying in Bhopal and while the wife got the job in the central government undertaking in 2017, the husband did not get the job.
“This (husband not getting job) hurt his ego. He then started harassing her to quit her job and stay with him in Bhopal. He told her not to take up any job until he finds one. However, she refused, which created differences among the couple,” news agency PTI quoted woman’s lawyer as saying.
