Times of India Subject: Surat man granted divorce as wife hid blindness in one
eye
A family court in Surat granted divorce to a 23-yearold sari trader, ruling
that he was subject to cruelty by his wife, who hid the fact that she had no
vision in one eye and threatened him after he found out. After their wedding,
the husband took his wife to an ophthalmologist after she fell. It was then
that he learned she was effectively blind in one eye. When he sought to part
ways, she threatened to implicate him in a false case and to even kill herself.
The court accepted the husband’s suit on grounds of cruelty and granted a
divorce decree under Section 13(1)(i-a) of the Hindu Marriage Act.
The woman’s family initially refused to accept that she had no vision in one
eye. They got her examined at an Ahmedabad eye hospital in April 2022. The
doctor there told the woman’s family and her husband that her left eye number
was 17 diopters and there was no chance of her regaining vision in it.
The woman’s family finally admitted to the husband that they hid this fact, as
she was not getting marriage proposals because of it.
The petitioner then sought to end the marriage at which his wife threatened to
frame him and refused the divorce.
The court held the man was subjected to immense harassment by his wife’s
hostile conduct. The court referred to various judgments of SC and high court
before ruling in the man’s favour under the provision of the Hindu Marriage Act
dealing with cruelty.
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