Madhya Pradesh High Court: Husband forcing wife to quit job & live as per his wish and style amounts to cruelty

Madhya Pradesh High Court In an appeal seeking to set aside the Family Court, order refusing to award decree of divorce, a division bench of Suresh Kumar Kait,* CJ. and Sushrut Arvind Dharmadhikari, J., set aside the judgment and decree passed by the Family Court and granted decree of divorce on the ground of cruelty and desertion.

The Court held that “…forcing the wife to leave the job and live as per his wish and style, amounts to cruelty.”

Poonam v. Naveen, 2024 SCC OnLine MP 7375, Decided on 13-11-2024.