A man threw his son
from a shopping mall and died ... Bahraini judiciary divorces a Hindus woman
from her mentally ill husband.
The Sixth Grand Civil Court ruled with an irrevocable
fault-based divorce for a foreign wife (Indian) from her husband and committed
the husband to pay judicial expenses and attorney's fees.
The foreign wife's attorney, lawyer Fowzia
Janahi, said that the facts of the case returns to a wife filed a lawsuit
requesting to divorce her husband (an Indian
too), where they were married Pursuant to a marriage certificate issued in
accordance with the Hindu religion, and that she gave birth to a son on a marital bed in 2001, and that
the husband became suffering from psychopathic disorder (a mental disability) for
a long time, and has a file in the psychiatric hospital, but he refuses to abide
by prescriptions given to him permanently, and that his abstinence from the
treatment make him aggressive, abnormal and irresponsible , therefore result of
this aggressive behavior the husband threw their youngest son from the first
floor of one of the shopping malls.
According to the wife's attorney that she
submitted to the court documents proving the pathological condition of the
husband and she provided a copy of the death certificate of the son. She also
requested Joinder of actions to prove that the husband was suffering from
Psychopathy that led him to kill his son; as well she asked the testimony of
witnesses to prove the availability of grounds for divorce according to Hindu
law, and witnesses testified before the court that the husband was mental
patient and that she was being battered by him and abuse her treatment and that
he threw his son from the first floor, causing the death of the son.
Lawyer Fowzia
Janahi added that the Grand Civil Court is legally competent to consider the personal
status cases of non-Muslims, and that the divorce
matters are governed by the law of the state which the husband belongs to at
the time of divorce, and applies to divorce and separation the law of State which
the husband belongs to the time of filing the lawsuit.
