India dispatch: Supreme Court rebukes lower courts for branding a woman’s career choices as cruelty, raising questions about how matrimonial law treats working women

India dispatch: Supreme Court rebukes lower courts for branding a woman’s career choices as cruelty, raising questions about how matrimonial law treats working women

Samridh Chaturvedi is a JURIST correspondent and a third-year law student at the School of Law, Christ (Deemed to be University) where he covers legal, policy, and human rights developments in India. The Supreme Court of India delivered strong criticism against two lower courts, ruling that a woman whose dental practice she maintained while living away from her husband violated Indian divorce laws through acts of cruelty and desertion. Judges Vi…