28 May 2024
Following a recent story featuring a BK husband misleading a non-BK wife, we have another "No Sex Please, We're BKs" divorce, this time featuring a BK wife. Another BK broken family.
In short, BK marries man, gets knocked up, leaves husband pregnant, wants support, ends up with a big pay out.
The couple had married in 1999 but the husband in 2016 filed for divorce. His plea was allowed by a court in Haryana’s Palwal in 2019. The woman, along with her two daughters, had been residing separately from husband since 2016.
The court found that the BK woman, despite knowing that her husband had a 75-year-old mother and an aunt with an unsound mind, refused to live in the village with them and instead asked her husband to move out so they could be closer to a BK centre.
The Court noted that the woman had joined Brahma Kumaris, a spiritual organisation where celibacy is practised by women. The Family Court having previously found that,
The Court opined that setting aside the divorce decree would amount to compelling them to live together in complete disharmony, mental stress and strain which only will perpetuate cruelty but all the same directed her husband to pay 1,500,000 rupees towards an alimony to her within three months.
A Times of India report stated,
The wife and her family having made false accusations of her husband and his family leading to a criminal case in which they were later acquitted.
In short, BK marries man, gets knocked up, leaves husband pregnant, wants support, ends up with a big pay out.
Punjab & Haryana High Court has dismissed a wife's plea challenging the divorce order granted to the couple under the Hindu Marriage Act
The Punjab & Haryana High Court has dismissed a wife's plea challenging the divorce order granted to the couple under the Hindu Marriage Act, observing that expecting her husband to leave his aged mother of around 75 years, and his Sister of unsound mind unattended, amounted to "cruelty".
The couple had married in 1999 but the husband in 2016 filed for divorce. His plea was allowed by a court in Haryana’s Palwal in 2019. The woman, along with her two daughters, had been residing separately from husband since 2016.
The court found that the BK woman, despite knowing that her husband had a 75-year-old mother and an aunt with an unsound mind, refused to live in the village with them and instead asked her husband to move out so they could be closer to a BK centre.
“When the afore-mentioned circumstance namely, expectation/obdurateness of the appellant that the husband should live with her after leaving his old aged mother and un-sound mind Sister; is considered in the light of the observations made by the Hon’ble Supreme Court , the same would indeed constitute an “act of cruelty”,” the Division Bench said.
The Court noted that the woman had joined Brahma Kumaris, a spiritual organisation where celibacy is practised by women. The Family Court having previously found that,
the unilateral decision of refusal to have intercourse for considerable period without there being any physical incapacity or valid reason, may amount to mental cruelty.
The Court opined that setting aside the divorce decree would amount to compelling them to live together in complete disharmony, mental stress and strain which only will perpetuate cruelty but all the same directed her husband to pay 1,500,000 rupees towards an alimony to her within three months.
A Times of India report stated,
The husband has been able to prove on record that the wife was constantly harassing him to live separately from his parents and was insisting upon him to open his clinic in Jalandhar, where her parents live. It was the wife who left the matrimonial home when she was pregnant.
She later gave birth to a male child at her parent's native village Hazara in Punjab's Jalandhar district.
Despite this, the husband, after their child's birth, visited Hazara village in Jalandhar district along with customary gifts, sweets, clothes, etc and requested the parents of his wife to let her accompany him. But her parents insisted on a separate residence for their daughter and made it clear that only then would she and the child accompany him.
The wife and her family having made false accusations of her husband and his family leading to a criminal case in which they were later acquitted.