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Woman fined for seeking divorce over impotence

 

An Indian court has slapped a  hefty fine on a woman who cited her husband’s sexual impotence as  grounds for divorce, a report said yesterday. A judge in central Madhya Pradesh state ordered Vandana Gurjar  on Monday to pay 200,000 rupees ($4,440) to her estranged  husband Hemant Chhalotre, the Press Trust of India said. Chhalotre had complained the impotence accusation “rendered him  unmarriageable and sullied his prestige”, the news agency said. The amount of the fine far exceeds the annual income of millions  of Indians. Gurjar married Chhalotre nine years ago but left him after just  three months, and later sought a divorce -- granted by the courts --  on the grounds that she “could not have conjugal bliss with  Chhalotre as he was impotent,” the news agency said. Chhalotre then sued his wife for defaming his manhood.

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