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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> </head>  <body> <div style="font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size:12px; text-align:justify"> <table width="800" border="0" style="border:1px solid #ccc;padding:5px;" align="center" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="0">  <tr>   <td align="left" valign="top">   <br />   High Court of Himachal Pradesh <br /><br /> Repeated false allegations can constitute 'cruelty'<br /><br /> MANU/HP/0657/2015 - (31 Jul 2015)<br /><br />  </td>  </tr>    <tr>   <td align="left" valign="top">Monika Sharma v. Kuldeep Kumar Dogra</td>  </tr>    <tr>   <td align="left" valign="top" style="background-color:#FDEDCE"><strong>Mindful that the test for 'cruelty' in a marriage was a flexible one, the Court held that repeated false accusations by the wife against the husband, made knowingly, beseeching his reputation constituted cruelty. The Court dismissed the appeal of the wife and held that such cruelty entitled the husband for a decree of divorce.</strong></td>  </tr>  <tr>   <td align="left" valign="top" ><strong>Relevant : Vishwanath Agrawal, S/O Sitaram Agrawal vs. Sarla Vishwanath Agrawal, <manuid>MANU/SC/0513/2012</manuid>
N.G. Dastane vs. S. Dastane <manuid>MANU/SC/0330/1975</manuid>
Samar Ghosh vs. Jaya Ghosh <manuid>MANU/SC/1386/2007</manuid></strong></td>  </tr>   <tr>   <td align="left" valign="top" ><strong>Tags : cruelty, marriage, divorce</strong></td>  </tr> <tr>   <td align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</td>  </tr>  <tr>      <td align="left" valign="top"><strong>Source : newsroom.manupatra.com</strong></td>  </tr> <tr>   <td align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</td>  </tr>  <tr>   <td align="left" valign="top">Regards</td>  </tr>  <tr>   <td align="left" valign="top">Team Manupatra</td>  </tr>  <tr>   <td align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</td>  </tr>   </table> </div> </body> </html>