Stress Due To COVID Duty: Doctor wife sues Doctor husband, Bombay HC quashes FIR
"In March and April, when the coronavirus related work had increased in hospitals, there was too much stress. We were working for 18 hours every day and this led to a lot of misunderstandings," the woman informed the court.;
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Wednesday quashed an FIR filed by a woman against her doctor husband after she told the court that the move was a result of stress due to long hours of Covid-19 duty.
The woman, a professor of microbiology, informed a bench of Justices S S Shinde and M S Karnik that she had been married for 20 years and work stress during the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic had affected her marital life. The FIR was filed under charges including domestic violence in March, at the time when the couple had been working for 18 hours a day, she said.
Although the court wanted to interview the husband, the woman, a resident of Pune, said her husband was on duty at a government-run hospital.
"In March and April, when the coronavirus-related work had increased in hospitals, there was too much stress. We were working for 18 hours every day and this led to a lot of misunderstandings," the woman informed the court.
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