Wife Not Fasting on Karwa Chauth is an individual choice, not cruelty: Delhi HC
Wife Not Fasting on Karwa Chauth is an individual choice, not cruelty: Delhi HC (Representational Image )
The Delhi High Court upheld a couple’s divorce decision while stating that a husband cannot call his wife’s refusal to fast during Karwa Chauth as cruelty. Fasting is a matter of personal choice.
The husband had claimed that his wife had been cruel to him by not fasting on Karwa Chauth. Hence, the wife had appealed against a trial court order, granting divorce. In particular, he brought up the incident in Karwa Chauth where the woman had refused to fast.
The husband alleged that his wife would argue with his family and become irritated over small things. The husband claimed that she had previously refused to observe a fast on Karwa Chauth because he had not had her cell phone recharged.
Regarding this matter, the High Court ruled that differing in one’s religious beliefs and abstaining from certain religious obligations would not mean cruelty per se.
The man also claimed that his wife had removed vermillion from her forehead, broke her bangles, worn a white dress, and declared herself a widow in April 2011 as in the same month he had suffered a slipped disc
