Not every marital difference is cruelty to wife: Bombay HC

Cautioning against the rampant misuse of the Domestic Violence (DV) Act, the Bombay high court (HC) has held that the “cruelty” the act seeks to cover has to be of a “very “high degree.”

Allegations of cruelty can enable prosecution only if such cruelty “leads a woman to take her own life or, causes a grave and serious threat to her life,” the HC said.