Such discord broke out between husband and wife over eating onion and garlic, husband reached court, got divorced

Last Updated:December 09, 2025, 08:07 IST

The dispute between a husband and wife living in Ahmedabad, Gujarat over eating onion and garlic increased so much that they got divorced. Whereas their marriage took place in the year 2002. Justices Sangeeta Vishen and Neesha Thakor gave their verdict on this case which reached Gujarat High Court via Family Court.

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Husband-wife Dispute on Onion-Garlic: A very strange case has come to light from Ahmedabad, Gujarat. Here, there was such a fierce fight between a husband and wife over eating onion and garlic that the matter reached the point of divorce. The husband filed a divorce petition against the wife’s restrictions, although the wife appealed against the husband’s petition to end the marriage, but after a lawsuit that lasted for about 12 years, the marriage of the husband and wife finally ended.

According to the news published in Times of India, the case is of a couple living in Ahmedabad, who were married in the year 2002. In these, the wife, being a follower of the Swaminarayan sect, had strictly given up onion-garlic, whereas in the faith of her in-laws and husband, there was no such prohibition regarding onion-garlic and they were in favor of eating it. A dispute started between the two regarding this and kept increasing. Even in the same house, husband and wife started running separate kitchens.

Seeing the onion-garlic issue increasing, the wife went to her parents’ home with her child. After which, in the year 2013, the husband filed a divorce petition in the Family Court of Ahmedabad. The husband accused the wife of cruelty and leaving the house. After a trial that lasted for about 11 years, the Family Court, while deciding on the husband’s petition on May 8, 2024, ended the marriage and ordered the husband to pay maintenance to his wife and child.

However, after this the husband did not agree to the order of maintenance and reached Gujarat High Court to challenge it, while the wife also appealed in the High Court against the decision of divorce given by the Family Court. However, at one point during the hearing of the case, the wife told the High Court that she now has no objection to divorce and is ready to end the marriage. After which the bench of Justice Sangeeta Vishen and Justice Neesha Thakor said that in view of the above statement, there is no need for this court to look further into the issue of divorce.