Marking an important step for women’s rights and empowerment, the Bombay High Court recently ruled in the favour of a wife, ordering the husband to pay Rs 10,000 monthly as maintenance and another Rs 10,000 per month towards her residential accommodation.
The husband, a Chartered Accountant (CA) by profession, had in 2004 filed for a divorce on the ground of cruelty, claiming that “wife was not behaving properly; was not doing her household work; she was disobedient towards his parents; her behavior was rude; she was not able to cook; the wife caused him mental stress, all these acts amount to cruelty.”
