 
November 2, 2007
HIV: Grounds for Divorce?
A court in Delhi, India, has granted a man the right to divorce his wife because she is HIV positive (hindustantimes.com, 11/2).
The court reportedly granted the man the divorce because it deemed that he could not be expected to have sexual intercourse with his wife. Rajnish Bhatnagar, the district judge who allowed the divorce, said “marriage without sex is anathema.”
Bhatnagar added, “The disease being sexually communicable, the petitioner cannot be reasonably expected to live with her and lead a happy married life.” Bhatnagar has called the wife guilty of not disclosing her status to her husband.
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