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MUMBAI: “Mere failure of wife to do chores such as cooking, cleaning does not automatically amount to cruelty as marriage is a partnership of equals and not a service contract and the wives are not ‘deemed maids’,” said Bombay High Court this month, dismissing a husband’s plea for divorce on grounds of cruelty. A wife’s refusal to perform daily chores does not qualify as mental cruelty, said Justices Bharti Dangre and Manjusha Deshpande in a May 8 judgment and set aside a 2010 Bandra family court decree of divorce and order denying her maintenance.