Extramarital Affair Not 498A Cruelty Unless Likely To Drive Wife To Suicide: the Madras High Court has held that a husband’s illicit relationship, though proved, is not by itself cruelty under Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code, and upheld the acquittal of a man in a wife’s suicide case. Chennai: The Madras High Court […]
The Supreme Court recently acquitted a husband in a decades-long abetment of suicide case due to insufficient evidence linking him to the deceased’s suicide. The ruling emphasized the need for careful evaluation of cruelty allegations and distinguishing between ordinary marital issues and circumstances causing suicide. The decision stresses the importance of evidence scrutiny and legal principles.
