Alcohol is such an addiction that not only contaminates the city but also the family and the society badly. Often disputes arise between husband and wife due to drinking alcohol. A similar case came to the fore in the National Lok Adalat of the capital Bhopal. Where after a few days of marriage, alcohol addiction increased such a distance between husband and wife that the couple broke up with each other. Husband gave up alcohol after counseling in family court. On this the wife said that she will stay together first. If the husband has improved then all the cases will be withdrawn and thus on Saturday the couple withdrew all the cases after persuasion by Chief Justice SK Joshi in the National Lok Adalat.
The husband told that now the wife is pregnant and after 10 years the happiness of the child is going to come in life. Out of 173 cases in the family court, both were married in 2013. Due to living in a joint family, disputes started increasing every day, the wife went to her maternal home. In 2017, the wife filed a divorce case when she went to sleep.
55 year old wife asked for maintenance
A 55 year old wife reached the court seeking maintenance. The couple has been married for 28 years, they have two children aged 27 and 24, but their complaint was that she served her husband for so many years, but now the husband is not paying attention to her in her illness, she also longs for the expenses. The husband had filed a case in January this year. In the counselling, the husband accepted his mistake and promised to take care of his wife. After this the wife also withdrew the case.
The judge reconciled by giving a plant
Another case of dispute between husband and wife came to the fore in the National Lok Adalat. Where the wife of Barkhedi complained that she was married in 2019. But she has been living in the maiden since 2 years. Husband’s unmarried aunt and mother-in-law can keep all the money for the rent of the ancestral house. Even on husband’s demand, she gives money to the husband, who gets drunk, in such a situation, neither the husband’s drug addiction is released nor money reaches him for household expenses. On the persuasion of the judge, both the mother-in-law We agreed to stay and the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were sent with a plant. The judge said that reconciliation is necessary between the mother-in-law and the daughter-in-law, not the husband and wife.