The court allowed the city resident's application in an ex-parte order as his wife did not appear before it despite repeated opportunities given to her to have her say on the man's plea.
The man in his plea had claimed after eight years of their marriage, his wife was having illicit affairs with many other persons, making his married life miserable.
"....It has been clearly established from the unrebutted testimony of the petitioner (man) that the respondent wife has indulged consistently and persistently in a conduct which would have serious impact on the mind of the petitioner (man) causing him an extreme mental cruelty," Additional District Judge Sujata Kohli said.
"The petition is decreed in favour of the petitioner, thus granting him relief of judicial separation from the respondent (wife) as under Section 10 of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955," the court said.
The man, in his petition, said it was a love marriage which was solemnised in February 2001, while he had been living together with her near Moti Nagar here even before their marriage.
He said after eight years of their marriage, his married life was disturbed due to his wife's "illicit relationship" with a man and her behaviour became "quarrelsome and even abusive" towards him.
He said instead of realising her folly, she began indulging in illicit relationship with several others and this fact spread in the neighbourhood and he was compelled to change his residence at Moti Nagar. (More)