Assaulting wife and creating nuisance at her work place in a state of intoxicatin would amount to ‘cruelty’ for obtaining decree of divorce

1. This appeal under Section 19 (1) of the Family Courts Act, 1984 has been preferred by the appellant (for brevity ‘the husband’) to assail the legality and validity of the impugned judgement dated 28.04.2016 passed by the Family Court, Bilaspur, in Civil Suit No. 208-A/2013, whereby his marriage with the respondent (for brevity ‘the wife’) has been annulled by issuing a decree of divorce on the ground of cruelty.

2. Facts of the case, briefly stated, are that the parties were married

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