Recently, the a Single Judge Bench of Madras High Court’s Justice G Jayachandran has ruled that a husband’s conduct in having an extramarital affair and then forcing his wife to accept it and demanding money to keep the affair going constitutes mental cruelty under Section 498A of the IPC. The bench was hearing a criminal
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