"Human Race Must Change...": Chhattisgarh High Court On Divorce Plea Over Woman's Skin Colour
NDTV
The husband claimed "cruelty" but the court ruled for the wife, who said she had been insulted, and thrown out of her home, because of her darker complexion.
The Chhattisgarh High Court last month called for the eradication of "discrimination based on skin colour" as it upheld a family court order denying a man's divorce application. The husband had claimed "cruelty", arguing he had been deserted by his spouse, but the court ruled for the wife, who said she had been insulted, and thrown out of her home, because of her darker complexion.
The court then came down strongly on the man, who was wed in 2005, and said it could not give others, through its judgement in this case, an "incentive to promote (a colourist) mindset".
"The human race needs to change the dialogue at home... which may not promote the fairness preference of skin," a bench of Justice Gautam Bhaduri and Justice Deepak Kumar Tiwari said.
