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Married woman told to do housework is not cruelty, says Bombay HC

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Updated on: 28 October,2022 06:58 AM IST  |  Mumbai
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Court quashes woman’s complaint of domestic violence over her in-laws expecting her to do chores at home

Married woman told to do housework is not cruelty, says Bombay HC

The woman said she was treated properly for a month, but thereafter, her in-laws began treating her like a ‘maid’. Representation pic

If a married woman is asked to do household work for the family, it cannot be equated to the work of a house help and would not amount to cruelty, the Aurangabad bench of the Bombay High Court said while quashing a case lodged by a woman against her estranged husband and his parents for domestic violence and cruelty.

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