The Jharkhand High Court has refused to annul a 38-year-old man’s marriage on the ground that his 29-year-old wife allegedly had a mental disorder that made her unfit for marriage and having children. The court found that medical records did not show any history of mental illness in the woman and that the scan report showed a pregnancy of 29 weeks, which did not support the husband’s claim.

The man argued that the marriage, solemnised in November 2016, remained unconsummated and that his wife’s alleged condition had been concealed before the wedding. Dismissing his appeal, Chief Justice M S Sonak and Justice Manoj Prasad noted that the woman had stood for three days of cross-examination, but nothing emerged to support the husband’s allegations.

“The two documents marked as Ext. 1 and 1/1, being copies of medical prescriptions, are not indicative of any history of mental illness.…