Unlike Nigeria where you be laugh out of
court for such, most cases of divorce in India are filed on the grounds of
abuse, or what's legally termed as "cruelty". But what amounts to
abuse has long been open to debate, especially when determining whether
psychological trauma has been afflicted on a person during marriage.
Party pooper
A sailor who claimed his
wife's regular partying, among other things, was a form of abuse. The
42-year-old man, who married his wife in 1999, was also in the "habit of
enjoying parties",
Sex machine
A sexless marriage is a common trigger for
divorce globally. But last year, a man wanted to divorce his wife because of too
much sex.
In his petition, the man described his wife
as having an "excessive and insatiable appetite for sex" ever since
their marriage in April 2012. He alleged that she would force him to have sex,
even at times when he was sick, and threatened to sleep with other men when he
refused.
Fashion police
In another case, a man sought a divorce
from his wife on the grounds of cruelty in part because of her
dress sense.
The man, in his 30s and married since 2009,
was reportedly anguished by his wife's decision to often wear shirts and
trousers to her workplace instead of traditional clothing.
Acne 'trauma'
Arranged marriages can sometimes lead to
partners we are not expectin, like dwarf, but the reason one man gave for wanting to end
his union was far from usual - he complained of being
traumatised by his wife's acne problem.
In his divorce petition, he argued that the
pimples and boils on his wife's face prevented him from consummating their
marriage during their honeymoon in 1998.
'Hostile hospitality'
The refusal by a woman to make tea
for her husband's friends had left him humiliated and along with other factors,
including her decision to terminate a pregnancy without his knowledge, amounted
to mental abuse and acceptable grounds for divorce(Adapted from BBC)
