Madhavi Ramesh Dudani vs Ramesh K. Dudani on 13 March, 2000
98. In a judgment dated October 21, 2016 MAT.APP.(F.C.)
36/2014 Sandhya Kumari vs. Manish Kumar the Delhi High Court
had noted that though irretrievable breakdown of marriage is not
a ground for divorce, but in the judgments reported as 2006 (2)
Mh.L.J.307 Madhvi Ramesh Dudani vs. Ramesh K.Dudani, 2007
(4) KHC 807 Shrikumar V.Unnithan vs.Manju K.Nair, (1994) 1 SCC
337 V.Bhagat vs. D.Bhagat and (2006) 4 SCC 558 Navin Kohli vs.
Neelu Kohli the concept of cruelty has been blended by the Courts
with irretrievable breakdown of marriage. The ratio of law which
emerges from said decisions is that where there is evidence that
the husband and wife indulge in mutual bickering, leading to
remonstration and therefrom to the stage where they target each
other mentally, insistence by one to retain the matrimonial bond
would be a relevant factor to decide on the issue of cruelty, for the
reason the obvious intention of said spouse would be to continue
(32 of 32) [CMA-204/2002]
with the marriage not to enjoy the bliss thereof but to torment
and traumatize the other.