Now there was this man from Madhyamgram (West Bengal) who drove out his wife because hsi did not like her choice of the salwaar-kameez.
The Telegraph reports:
Calcutta High Court on Tuesday heard an anticipatory bail plea moved by 30-year-old Dibyendu (Chatterjee), of Madhyamgram, who apprehended arrest in connection with a complaint lodged by Rupali with Maniktala police station. The woman had accused Dibyendu of mentally torturing her for regularly wearing a salwar-kameez.
Trouble started six months ago, after Dibyendu had allegedly driven out his 27-year-old wife after a row over her dress code. Rupali didn’t buckle and went off to live at her parental home in Kankurgachhi with her son. On Tuesday, the wife appeared before the court in a red salwar- kameez.
“Couldn’t she have worn a sari even today? She knows neither do I like her in that outfit and nor do my parents,” the husband told the court, as his wife complained of negligence. Their son gazed on in silence. [Link]
The judge, however, was not amused by the marital melodrama.
“What a person wears is entirely his or her discretion. No one can dictate terms on that,” Justice Partha Sakha Dutta admonished the bickering couple.
He asked them to try and understand each other’s problems. “Leave now, and try to live in peace,” said the judge, and sent them off.
