Punjab and Haryana High Court Rules Single Meeting with Ex Does Not Constitute Adultery
The Punjab and Haryana High Court ruled that a single meeting between a wife and her ex-partner does not constitute adultery. The court distinguished between suspicion and legally provable infidelity, noting that a prior relationship before marriage is not adultery after marriage. This ruling arose from a matrimonial dispute where the husband, an Indian Navy officer, accused his wife of infidelity and cruelty, while the wife denied the allegations and claimed dowry harassment. The court upheld the family court's dissolution of the marriage on grounds of cruelty.