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High Court Rules That Refusing To Complete Marriage and Refusing Physical Intimacy Is Mental Cruelty

By - 24 Jan 2024 10:42 AM

Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh: The Madhya Pradesh High Court has ruled that refusing to consummate a marriage and denying physical intimacy constitute mental cruelty and are grounds for divorce.

On January 3, a man was granted a divorce by a division bench consisting of Justices Sheel Nagu and Vinay Saraf. The man's wife had refused to consummate their marriage and had not allowed him to have any physical intimacy since their 2006 wedding.

In its ruling, the high court stated that "the non-consummation of marriage and denial of physical intimacy amounts to mental cruelty."He married her in July 2006, according to the man's appeal. But because she felt coerced into the marriage, his wife refused to live with him and consummate their union.

The woman allegedly told the man that she was in love with someone else and requested the man to unite them.

The man said he left for the US for work the same month, and in September, the woman went to live with her family and never returned.

In 2011, the man filed an application before a family court in Bhopal seeking divorce. In 2014, the family court rejected the plea.