LATEST TIMES OF INDIA NEWS FOR WORKING WOMEN Wifes no to job transfer is no reason for divorce Rosy Sequeira TNN Mumbai: The failure of a wife to take job transfer to her husbands city,even if promised before marriage,does not constitute cruelty for which divorce can be sought,the Bombay high court has ruled. The court was hearing the case of a Mumbai man seeking divorce from his wife of 17 years.It dismissed the husbands plea as well as his Pune-based wifes plea seeking restitution of conjugal rights.The couple has lived apart for 16 years during which the husband remarried. In a verdict touching on a modern dilemma for couples,a division bench of Justices Abhay Oka and Gautam Patel said it could not accept the hypothesis underlying the husbands argument. The premise,the court said,was that it is the bounden duty of a wife,as a legal obligation,to extirpate herself from her settled life and job to follow her husband.Her needs,wishes and desires must be relegated to second place,suborned to the husbands personal and family needs.Her identity,as it were,is only as a wife,not as an independent woman with her own job and earning.
Posted on: Sat, 05 Oct 2013 11:52:00 +0000
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