{"id":29383,"date":"2026-08-07T06:03:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T06:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalserviceindia.com\/Legal-Articles\/?p=29383"},"modified":"2026-08-07T06:08:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T06:08:40","slug":"mental-cruelty-section-13-1-ia-hindu-marriage-act-defence-false-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalserviceindia.com\/Legal-Articles\/mental-cruelty-section-13-1-ia-hindu-marriage-act-defence-false-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental Cruelty Divorce Cases: How to Defend False Allegations Under Section 13(1)(ia) Hindu Marriage Act"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

<\/span>A Practitioner’s Note on Section 13(1)(ia), Hindu Marriage Act, 1955<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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“Marriages are made in heaven, or so it is said. But we are more often than not made to wonder what happens to them by the time they descend down to earth. Though there is legal machinery in place to deal with such cases, these are perhaps the toughest for the courts to deal with. Such is the case presently before us.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Supreme Court in Hitesh Bhatnagar vs. Deepa Bhatnagar<\/em>, AIR 2011 Supreme Court 1637.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

This observation speaks volumes of the agony\/pain of the divorce proceedings and the arduous task of the courts in deciding these petitions.<\/p>

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