The Bombay High Court has held that repeated threats by a spouse to take their own life amount to mental cruelty, and on that ground granted divorce to a man whose plea had earlier been rejected by a family court.

A bench of Chief Justice Shree Chandrashekhar and Justice Gautam Ankhad delivered the order last week, noting that when such conduct becomes repetitive, it turns the matrimonial relationship “impossible” to continue. The judgment became available on Wednesday.

The husband, who married in 2006, approached the High Court challenging a 2019 order of the family court that denied him divorce. The couple had been living separately since 2012 due to serious marital discord.

In his plea, the man cited multiple grounds — desertion, persistent suspicion, threats of suicide, and an actua

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