The Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court has dismissed a petition filed by an IPS officer who had questioned his estranged wife’s mental stability, ruling that a woman completing her medical career in Amravati after marital separation cannot be termed mentally unsound.
The bench of Justice Mukulika Jawalkar and Justice Naresh Deshpande delivered the ruling after the officer, an IPS official from Amravati, challenged a lower court order. His petition alleged that his wife — a medical teacher — was mentally unstable, suicidal, had destroyed household property, and was undergoing psychiatric treatment. The wife denied all charges and counter-alleged physical assault, harassment, and mental torture. She further alleged that her husband had her forcibly admitted to a psychiatric facility to suppress her.
The High Court held that the wife’s continued professional functioning as a medical educator in Amravati after the separation was evidence of mental stability, not its absence. The court also noted that no medical or psychiatric evidence was produced to support the husband’s claims. The family court’s earlier order was set aside, and the HC took up the IPS officer’s appeal on record.
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