Sunday, 9 November 2014

Even Muslim women don’t like husband with more wives: Court


MUMBAI: A family court, while deciding a divorce petition last week, yobserved, "In today's age, and in a city like Mumbai, even a Muslim woman does not like her husband to have more wives, though the Personal Law permits it."

The observation was made in context to a claim that relations between the couple deteriorated after the man remarried his first wife.



The court granted the divorce petition filed by the woman on grounds of cruelty. The husband was, in fact, convicted and sentenced to four years imprisonment for attacking the petitioner and their two daughters with a scythe in 2010.

The court observed that this was the best evidence of the man's cruelty.

The couple married in 1990 after the woman's first husband died of a heart attack, leaving behind a daughter. In the petition filed in 2009, the woman said that the man was a software engineer but quit his job to stay idle at home. yShe alleged that he demanded money from her father, and began to beat and abuse her. The woman said that he drove her out of the house, forcing her to move to rented premises with her daughters in August 2002.

The woman also prayed for the house purchased by her father in Juhu.

The man denied the charges and said the house was purchased along with her father. He claimed that he had married the petitioner in a hurry, after objections to him accompanying her for her exams to Hyderabad in 1990. The man said she made him quit his job, as she wanted a rich husband, and her non-cooperation in his business led him to incur heavy losses. He blamed the woman's daughter from her first marriage for driving a wedge in the family.

The court found that he had inflicted physical, mental, economic and soycial cruelty on the woman. The court directed him to pay Rs40,000 towards litigation expenses and ordered him not to interfere in her possession of the house.
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