The Karnataka High Court recently upheld the divorce of an Army man, holding that repeated complaints made by the wife to the Mahila Santhwana Kendra and to the husband’s superior officers in the Army constituted mental cruelty. A division bench of Justice Jayant Banerji and Rajesh Rai K described the marriage as “deadwood” while dismissing the wife’s appeal against the October 2021 family court judgment granting divorce to the husband on the ground of cruelty . “The family court concluded that the respondent – husband had established that the appellant – wife had subjected him to cruelty by filing complaints to Mahila Santwana Kendra and also to the Higher Officers of the Army, where the respondent – husband was working and also by filing false affidavit stating that the husband was not paying maintenance, although he was paying the same.…