Even if his better half left him within a couple of years after their marriage and remained isolated for 25 continuous years, the Delhi high court has upheld the order of the trial court and refused to grant him divorce on the grounds of cruelty and desertion.
After not finding enough merit in the petition of Amar Lala Arora, Justice Kailash Gambhir dismissed it and said, “The appellant (Mr Arora) has also not proved that there was no consent on his part and his conduct was without blemish so as to compel the respondent wife to leave the matrimonial home.”
Mr Arora had been married to Shashi Bala in 1987 and a year later they were blessed with a daughter but their marriage did not sustain as she left her matrimonial home, alleging that her husband treated her rudely under the influence of his family members.
While rejecting Mr Arora’s argument that his wife had deserted him a few years after marriage in February 1987, the court observed that he had made no attempt to bring her back.
Mr Arora, however, contended that he along with his parents had gone to her parental house to bring her back but she had refused to come back to his house with even her parents supporting her decision to not go.
Upholding the trial court’s order which had rejected the divorce plea of Arora, Justice Gambhir concurred with the lower court’s findings about the petitioner’s conduct towards his wife.
“The trial court had observed that the petitioner lacked the courage to bring back respondent wife to the matrimonial home due to the fear of his mother and rightly so as the minimum which can be expected of the husband and his family members towards her is to give due respect to the wife who enters into a new atmosphere in her matrimonial home,” the court observed.