Can hiding a psychological ailment before marriage be a ground for divorce / annulment of marriage?
Non disclosure of facts relating to herself can be held as fraud committed on you for obtaining your consent for marriage. However the conditions attached to this ground for obtaining annulment of marriage are: 1.The petition for annulment should be filled within one year of disclosure/discovery of the fraud. 2. The petitioner should not have condoned the fraud. 3. There should not be any relationship of husband-wife after the fraud was discovered by the petitioner. The second part of the question is can divorce be obtained on the ground of the unfit mental condition, yes that too can be obtained provided the respondent has been incurably of unsound mind, or has suffering continuously or intermittently from mental disorder of such a kind and to such an extent that the petitioner cannot reasonably be expected to live with the respondent. Explanation- In this clause- (a) the expression “mental disorder” means mental illness, arrested or incomplete development of mind, psychopathic disord
