Kumar Bahukhandi
Bilaspur : The Chhattisgarh High Court has held husband entitled to divorce if his wife does not respect his religious beliefs. The court found that wife was ridiculing the religious rituals and deities of her Hindu husband. Therefore, the court rejected the wife’s appeal.
The family court had accepted the husband’s divorce application. The wife appealed against it in the High Court. According to the case, the girl, resident of Karanjia in Dindori district of Madhya Pradesh, is a Christian. She married a man Vikash resident of Gandhi Nagar Bilaspur on February 7, 2016 according to Hindu customs. A few months later of the marriage, the wife started mocking Hindu customs and gods and goddesses.
Vikas was working in Delhi. After living there for a few months, he came back to Bilaspur and started working as a teacher in St. Xavier’s School. Later, wife converted back to Christianity and started going to church. Distressed by all this, the husband submitted an application for divorce in the Family Court Bilaspur. After the hearing, the court passed a decree in Vikas’s favour on April 5, 2024 allowing him to divorce.
The wife challenged this order by appealing in the High Court. The hearing was held in the division bench of Justice Rajni Dubey and Justice Sanjay Jaiswal. During the hearing, the High Court said that the appellant wife herself has admitted that for the last 10 years she has not performed any kind of puja and worship. Instead she goes to church for prayers. The husband told that the appellant wife repeatedly insulted his religious beliefs. The findings recorded by the trial court are in accordance with the provisions of the Hindu Marriage Act, and no interference is required in it.
