No Court Relief To Mumbai Woman Who Alleged Torture By Husband
NDTV
The Bombay High Court Bench also noted that the behaviour of the woman was "quite strange" and "cannot be said as a natural conduct of an educated woman living independently in a city like Mumbai".
The Bombay High Court has refused to annul the marriage of a 33-year-old woman, who claimed that she was forced to marry the man and was physically assaulted and tortured by him since she was 14 years old.
A division bench of Justices K R Shriram and P K Chavan, in their order, noted that there was no evidence or corroboration to the woman's claims and the overall evidence of the appellant was "improbable, unbelievable and unacceptable".
The order was passed on June 15 and a copy of the same was made available on Tuesday.
"No sane man would believe and accept her (appellant woman) testimony, as it is nothing but ipsedixitism (assertion without proof or dogmatic expression of opinion). It is quite apparent from the evidence that this is a case of inflicted insight," the court observed.
