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Ranchi News: Jharkhand High court indicates Manusmriti said daughter in law should take care of her old mother in law

The Jharkhand High Court ruled that the daughter-in-law should take care of her aging mother-in-law and that the husband should not be pressured to avoid the family

The Jharkhand High Court ruled in a family case contesting the Dumka Family Court’s ruling that serving an aging mother-in-law or husband’s grandmother is both a cultural tradition and a legal requirement in India. The court further declared that it is unjust for the wife to put pressure on her husband to avoid seeing his relatives in order to avoid taking care of his aging mother-in-law. Let us tell you, the Jharkhand High Court has heard a challenge to a family dispute that is currently pending in the Dumka Family Court.

The High Court has issued this order after learning of this. which happened in High Court Judge Subhash Chand’s court. The news reports that the Dumka Family Court ordered the husband to give his wife Rs 30,000 per month and Rs 15,000 per month for the upbringing of their minor son during the course of a family dispute. Following this Dumka Family Court ruling, the husband filed a challenge against it with the Jharkhand High Court.

The wife started living away from her in-laws’ home in 2018, according to the court hearing the case, and she never went back. The wife did not enjoy serving the elderly mother and grandmother at home, so as a result, she frequently put pressure on him to avoid them, according to the husband’s court case filed under Section 10 of the Hindu Marriage Act. formerly used to produce. Both parties gave their respective presentations at the case’s hearing.

The court concluded that the wife had left her in-laws’ home voluntarily after reviewing the evidence. The wife had put pressure on her husband to live apart because she was hesitant to take on the duties of caring for her aging mother-in-law and grandmother-in-law at her in-laws’ home. The Supreme Court’s observations in the Narendra v. K Meena case were cited by Justice Subhash Chand’s court in its decision. wherein it was decided that the wife’s persistent attempts to keep her husband away from his family constituted “cruelty.”