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Calling wife Bhoot" (ghost) and Pishach" (flesh-eating demon) and use of filthy language by husband in a failed marriage doesn't amount to cruelty, observed the Patna High Court in a case..
A single-judge bench of Justice Bibek Chaudhuri observed that the use of filthy language doesn't amount to cruelty under Section 498A (cruelty towards wife by husband or his relatives) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC)..
The Patna Court observed in a case which was filed in 1994 by Naresh Kumar Gupta's divorced wife in Nawada, her native place..
The father-son-due took the case to High Court after they were slapped with rigorous imprisonment for a year by the Chief Judicial Magistrate, in 2008, and it was rejected 10 years later..
Opposing the petition filed before the Patna High Court, the divorced woman's advocate pleaded that she was called "bhoot" and "pishach" by her in-laws, which was "a form of immense cruelty"..
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