Observing that the husband was “hell-bent” on getting rid of his wife on “one pretext or the other”, the Chhattisgarh High Court recently set aside a family court order granting him divorce, holding that mere unhappiness or dissatisfaction in a marriage is not enough to prove cruelty and end a marriage. The husband later moved the family courts seeking divorce on the grounds of cruelty and desertion by the wife. The family court, later, allowed the husband’s plea and granted divorce, dissolving the couple’s marriage. “Mere unhappiness and dissatisfaction of one party at the instance of another cannot by itself constitute cruelty warranting dissolution of marriage”, the court added. Holding that the wife never intended to permanently abandon the marriage and that the husband had failed to prove cruelty or desertion through evidence, the high court allowed the woman’s appeal and set aside the divorce decree granted by the family court.