India, Feb. 15 -- The Rajasthan high court's Jaipur bench has refused to dissolve a 58-year-old marriage, holding that "trivial irritations, quarrels and normal wear and tear of married life" cannot amount to cruelty sufficient to grant divorce.

A division bench comprising justices Anil Kumar Upman and Sudesh Bansal delivered the ruling on Friday, upholding a 2019 order of the family court in Bharatpur that had dismissed the husband's divorce petition.

The court observed that minor disagreements and property disputes within a family do not justify breaking a long-standing marriage, particularly at advanced age.

"Ordinarily, trivial irritation, quarrels and normal wear and tear of married life, which ordinarily happens in day-to-day lif...