India, Nov. 20 -- The Bombay High Court has held that a spouse's repeated threats to die by suicide constitute cruelty, while granting divorce to a man whose wife allegedly attempted suicide and repeatedly threatened him during disputes.

According to the petition filed by the husband, the couple got married in May 2006 and had a son the following year. The relationship began to deteriorate in 2008, and they eventually started living separately in 2012.

From 2013 onward, the estranged couple initiated several litigations against each other, including cases related to divorce, restitution of conjugal rights, maintenance, and domestic violence. A marriage counsellor recorded in 2015 that reconciliation between the two was not possible.

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