Filing False Criminal Complaints causes Mental Cruelty Archives - Shades of Knife

Ghanshyam Soni Vs State (NCT of Delhi) and Anr on 04 Jun 2025

ShadesOfKnife — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 17:15:05 +0000

A division bench of Apex Court granted Divorce to husband against a lying wife. From Para 10, 10. A perusal of the FIR shows that the allegations made by the complainant are that in the year 1999, the Appellant inflicted mental and physical cruelty upon her for bringing insufficient dowry. The Complainant refers to few […]

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Aarti Vs Kishan Meena on 22 Aug 2024

ShadesOfKnife — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 17:26:38 +0000

A division bench of Madhya Pradesh High Court at Indore held as follows, From Para 16, 16. It has also been held in Samar Ghosh (supra) where on facts there has been irretrievable breakdown of marriage, the party opposing the divorce and not letting go the other party free of the matrimonial bond, would be […]

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Kanwal Kishore Girdhar Vs Seema Girdhar on 28 Feb 2024

ShadesOfKnife — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 12:25:52 +0000

A division bench of Delhi High Court, held that ‘Mother igniting animosity in children towards father is cruelty, valid ground for divorce’. From Paras 32-33, 32. It is unfortunate that despite the respondent being educated, she was unable to manage her sentiments and emotions, when it came to her husband. She has made adulterous allegations […]

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Payal Sethi Vs Rohit Sethi on 09 Jan 2024

ShadesOfKnife — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 06:05:29 +0000

A division bench of Delhi High Court held that, repeated threats to commit suicide and the attempt to commit suicide was held to be an action amounting to cruelty, based on Supreme Court decisions. From Pars 25-31, 25. The repeated threats to commit suicide and the attempt to commit suicide was held to be an […]

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Sivasankaran Vs Santhimeenal on 13 Sep 2021

ShadesOfKnife — Thu, 16 Sep 2021 03:34:35 +0000

A division bench of Apex Court granted divorce to a husband, on the grounds of Cruelty apart from irretrievable breakdown of marriage. From Paras 4 and 5, 4. Insofar as irretrievable breakdown of marriage is concerned, no doubt, it does not exist as a ground of divorce under the Act. The issue has been debated […]

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Mangayarkarasi Vs M Yuvraj on 03 March 2020

ShadesOfKnife — Sun, 19 Apr 2020 08:26:09 +0000

Supreme Court said that, acquittal from a false criminal case… From Para 15, 15. It cannot be in doubt that in an appropriate case the unsubstantiated allegation of dowry demand or such other allegation has been made and the husband and his family members are exposed to criminal litigation and ultimately if it is found […]

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Raj Talreja Vs Kavita Talreja on 24 April 2017

ShadesOfKnife — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 14:04:18 +0000

Supreme Court had that filing false complaints caused mental cruelty and thereby gives opportunity to seek divorce on the ground of Cruelty. “11. Cruelty can never be defined with exactitude. What is cruelty will depend upon the facts and circumstances of each case. In the present case, from the facts narrated above, it is apparent […]

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Suchitra Kumar Singha Roy Vs Arpita Singha Roy on 20 March 2020

ShadesOfKnife — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 12:20:13 +0000

Knife filed false criminal cases and the husband and his father had to be in police custody for nine days. This is cruelty and hence divorce for husband. Citations: Other Source links:

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K.Srinivas Vs K.Sunita on 19 November, 2014

ShadesOfKnife — Fri, 04 May 2018 06:02:56 +0000

Wonderful judgment from the Hon’ble Supreme Court whereby it is declared that filing a false complaint by Knife on husband and his family constitutes cruelty and this is sufficient ground a marriage can be dissolved. The prosecution tried these tactics to counter the appeal from Husband if a specific finding regarding the falsity of the […]

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Jagbir Singh vs Nisha on 11 March, 2015

ShadesOfKnife — Tue, 01 May 2018 07:01:06 +0000

This is a case of a Knife, named Nisha, who filed false criminal cases (498A, 406 and DV Case) on the Husband and his family that got dismissed as prosecution failed to prove the cruelty allegation. The trial court found them to be totally unfounded and baseless. Moreover, The father of the appellant at the […]

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