husband is incapable in establishing
marital relations.
She has further deposed in para-22 that her husband himself
told her that he is an impotent ... examination of her husband was raised but
the family members of her husband did not get the medical examination of
her husband done
husband and hence the wife is not entitled
to maintenance if she refused to live with the husband
merely because her husband was impotent ... entitled to live apart from her husband and claim
maintenance on the ground that her husband was impotent and
unable to perform his marital obligations
examine the husband. The court, however, put a number of questions to the husband. In answer to one of the questions the husband stated ... person is impotent quoad hanc it is not necessary to show universal impotency. In these types of cases the impotency arising from that fact would
husband. The mere fact that the husband has been unresponsive to the overtures of the wife may not be sufficient to call the husband impotent ... averment by her that the husband is impotent may not be sufficient to find such Impotency. Impotency is defined in "The Text of Medical
during this period. The respondent wife immediately realized that her husband was impotent. To confirm this, she herself took initiative for sexual intercourse; but with ... husband who were the chief negotiators of the marriage and disclosed to them about her husband's impotence. At the instance of the guardians
petitioner-husband. According to Shri Khandeparkar, the petitioner-husband has himself stated that
the respondent called him au impotent person, that she had spoken ... also There can be no doubt that calling one's husband an impotent person, lacking in
manliness and unable to consummate the marriage, which
doctors, questioned the appellant-husband. According to her, the medical evidence clinchingly established that the appellant- husband is impotent. She contended that the marriage ... wife and her parents towards the appellant- husband and their allegation that the appellant-husband is impotent, would amount to immense mental agony and cruelty
husband took the husband to a medical practitioner who is examined as P.W. 3, and that after the husband was examined for about ... when P.W. 3 examined the husband it continued, it is clear that the husband was impotent at the time of the marriage and that
petition
by the husband is that the wife has made an
allegation that the husband is an impotent which
amounts to mental agony and cruelty ... mental disturbance of the
husband causing disharmony between the husband
and wife, which makes the husband unable to stay
with the wife.
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body and that, therefore, the respondent was impotent qua her and that this impotency of the husband prevented her from having any orgesm during coitus ... impotency of the husband. After leaving the husband, the appellantwife filed a petition for divorce against the husband on the ground of cruelty under
