{"id":14599,"date":"2015-12-06T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-06T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2015\/12\/06\/man-cannot-divorce-wife-under-hindu-marriage-law-if-she-is-terminally-ill-rules-indian-court\/"},"modified":"2015-12-06T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-06T12:00:00","slug":"man-cannot-divorce-wife-under-hindu-marriage-law-if-she-is-terminally-ill-rules-indian-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2015\/12\/06\/man-cannot-divorce-wife-under-hindu-marriage-law-if-she-is-terminally-ill-rules-indian-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Cannot Divorce Wife under Hindu Marriage Law If She Is Terminally Ill, Rules Indian Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/asia\/india\/12033282\/Man-cannot-divorce-wife-under-Hindu-law-if-she-is-terminally-ill-rules-Indian-court.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NEW DELHI, INDIA, December 4, 2015 (Telegraph): India&#8217;s supreme court has ruled that a man cannot divorce his wife if she is terminally ill, even if she consents, because he is duty-bound under Hindu law to care for her. The landmark ruling came as justices turned down the divorce application of a man whose wife, it emerged, had breast cancer, amid fears he was pressuring her to accept a financial settlement to pay for her medical treatment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is evident that the wife needs sufficient amount of money for the treatment of breast cancer,&#8221; the ruling said. &#8220;Hence, it cannot be ruled out that in order to save her life by getting money, she agreed for a settlement of dissolution of marriage.&#8221; They refused the divorce because the man was &#8220;promising to do something which he is already duty bound,&#8221; and ruled that consent could not be given with the husband in a position of such undue influence.<\/p>\n<p>The judges instead ordered the man pay US$7,500 within a week for his wife&#8217;s medical treatment &#8211; the approximate cost of the immediate surgery and first round of chemotherapy her breast cancer required &#8211; and to only approach family court once again for divorce when she had recovered. Justices M.Y. Eqbal and C. Nagappan quoted a passage from the epic &#8220;Mahabharata&#8221; in their judgment, stating: &#8220;Where women are honored there the gods are pleased; but where they are not honored no sacred rite yields rewards.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source NEW DELHI, INDIA, December 4, 2015 (Telegraph): India&#8217;s supreme court has ruled that a man cannot divorce his wife,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}