The Bandra family court rejected a divorce petition filed by a naval officer’s wife, who had accused her husband of unnatural sex, making her ‘walk 10 km to buy vegetables’, and forcing her to cook ‘without a kitchen platform and washbasin rather than eating at the naval mess’.The woman, 30, said in her petition that throughout their eight-year marriage, her husband insisted on unnatural sex because he didn’t want children and it resulted in her suffering from backaches.She further said that she delivered a baby girl in December 2006 through artificial insemination but her husband didn’t approve because of the baby’s gender.The court, however, ruled that the woman had lied under oath, after her cross-examination nailed her lies. After claiming her husband only had unnatural sex with her, the woman admitted during the cross-examination that they had normal sex between February 2001 and June 2001. She also admitted that the vegetable market was located just “10 steps from the couple’s residence”.The cross-examination further revealed that the woman didn’t even inform her husband that she had delivered a baby, and that he came to know of it only three days later, when he visited her to wish her on Christmas.Dismissing the petition, Principal Judge (family court) Laxmi Rao said: “The petitioner has come out with a case of anal sex after eight years of marriage, and has sought support of her doctor to corroborate her testimony. However, there is no evidence of the doctor having examined her and arrive at conclusion of such abuse.”Saying that the woman had “lied under oath”, the judge observed: “I find that this petitioner is dishonest in jumping to conclusions regarding attributing her backache to housework and anal sex.”On the woman’s allegations that her husband wasn’t happy with their child’s gender, the court said that he immediately visited the newborn, which clearly showed he cared for the child. “Had it been a case of disappointment at the child’s gender, the respondent wouldn’t have gone to his in-laws’ house and video-recorded the baby, the mother and his in-laws,” the judge noted.Directing the naval officer to pay Rs 15,000 per month towards his daughter’s maintenance, the judge also fined the woman Rs 5,000 for filing a false petition. “I am inclined to fine you Rs 25,000 but looking to your condition, I will bring down the amount to Rs 5,000.”