India, March 24 -- A woman repeatedly threatening to die by suicide or to harm her husband and their family members transcend represent a blatant form of psychological warfare, the Orissa high court observed while upholding the order of dissolution of marriage by a family court.

In a judgement upholding the order of family court of Cuttack that dissolved the marriage 20 years after the couple's wedding, a divison bench of justices BP Routray and Chittaranjan Dash said that repeated threat of suicide is not just a misconduct, but an insidious form of emotional blackmail and psychological oppression.

"Such conduct crosses the boundaries of personal conflict and touches upon the very core of harassment, making it impossible for the aggriev...