Initiation Of False Criminal Case For Which A Husband/ His Family Are Sent To Prison Amounts To Cruelty: Calcutta HC [Read Judgment]

A division bench of the Calcutta High Court has ruled that falsely implicating one's husband/ his family in a criminal case, which leads to their arrest and subsistence in jail, amounts to cruelty. While allowing an appeal for divorce preferred by an aggrieved husband, Justices Samapti Chatterjee and Manojit Mandal observed, "The respondent/wife, in our opinion, had no intention...