After 53 yrs, 80-yr-old seeks divorce
Posted by 498A_Crusader on June 4, 2007
KANPUR: An 80-year-old man seeking divorce from wife after leading a married life for 53 years may sound unusual. However, Budheshwar Shukla, a retired employee of the Central Bank of India here, is fed up with the married life and he has filed a divorce case last week in the family court here, alleging that his wife Rani Devi, 71, torture him physically and mentally.
The couple had tied the nuptial nut in 1954 when even the Hindu Marriage Act had not come into existence. Shukla has maintained in his application that their marital life has been marked with frequent conflicts which could be resolved only with the intervention of neighbours.
He said in his application that on January 11 also he had sent a notice to Rani Devi but this did not make her to change her ways.
A father of two daughters and a son, all married, Shukla contends that he has faced four operations and can not stand the alleged atrocities of his wife any further.
His advocate said that Shukla had also levelled several charges against his daughter Kusum and his son-in-law Narendra.
The judge of family court had fixed August 3 as the next date of hearing the case.
