Streedhan – Whether the wife receives gold ornaments from her parents or her in-laws, the gold ornaments received in marriage by wife becomes her streedhan – Husband has mortgaged the wife’s streedhan for raising loans – Directed to clear the loan. (ID#444601)

Hindu marriage Act, 1955 S. 13(1)(ia) – Cruelty – A partner in matrimonial relationship who goes to the extent of filing police complaints against mother (with the Anti Corruption Bureau), friend, well wishers, investigating officer who was investigating the case, Prosecutor or advocate of his own wife, is a kind of person who is difficult to deal with and certainly causing mental harassment
Cruelty – Cruelty can be held as proved depending on the conduct complained of, which if found grave and weighty sufficient to come to conclusion that the spouse cannot be reasonably expected to live with the partner – Conduct complained of must be of such type and degree as to satisfy the conscience of the Court that the relationship between the parties had deteriorated to such an extent that it is impossible for the parties to live together without mental agony, distress and torture. Physical violence is not the absolute essentiality to constitute cruelty, but a consistent course of conduct inflicting mental agony is sufficient to constitute cruelty –