Samar Ghosh vs Jaya Ghosh on 26 March, 2007
"12.Undoubtedly, not allowing a spouse for a long
time to have sexual intercourse by his or her partner,
without sufficient reason, itself amounts to mental cruelty to
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such spouse. A Bench of three Judges of this Court in Samar
Ghosh v. Jaya Ghosh [Samar Ghosh v. Jaya Ghosh, (2007)
4 SCC 511] has enumerated some of the illustrations of
mental cruelty. Para 101 of the said case is being
reproduced below: (SCC pp. 546-47)
“101. No uniform standard can ever be laid
down for guidance, yet we deem it appropriate to
enumerate some instances of human behaviour
which may be relevant in dealing with the cases of
‘mental cruelty’. The instances indicated in the
succeeding paragraphs are only illustrative and not
exhaustive: