SC to look at if partner’s refusal to acknowledge schizophrenia and refusing therapy might be floor for divorce

By Online Desk

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has determined to look at whether or not a spouse’s denial of her alleged paranoid schizophrenia and her refusal to be subjected to medical therapy can quantity to the bottom of “cruelty” for divorce.

The Supreme Court on Friday stayed the divorce granted by Kerala High Court to the person. He divorced his spouse accusing her of affected by paranoid schizophrenia and refused to get therapy.

“Aggrieved by the High Court order, the wife approached the Supreme Court. Issuing notice returnable within six weeks, the bench stayed the operation of the High Court order,” Live Law reviews.

After staying the divorce, a Supreme Court Bench of Justices Vineet Saran and Aniruddha Bose determined to repair a listening to on a Special Leave Petition filed by her, towards the Kerala High Court order of September 3, 2021, by means of advocate Vipin Nair.

Earlier, the household courtroom and the Kerala High Court had granted the person divorce. His spouse, in response to a report on a nationwide each day, works as a senior nursing skilled within the UK.

While granting the divorce, the Kerala High Court was said to have considered that the girl denied she suffered from schizophrenia and declined therapy for a similar.

According to Live Law, the spouse alleged that her husband and her in-laws from the very starting of the wedding used to harass her. They used to allege that she was mentally unstable. She famous that she is taking excellent care of the 2 daughters born in wedlock and was sustaining an excellent relationship with the neighbours.

The couple reportedly married in 2001 and have two daughters.