New Delhi, February 24: A Delhi court has convicted two people for forcing a woman to drink acid in 2019. The court found her husband, Shamin, guilty of beating her and held his mother, Haseena, and sister, Shabnam, responsible for making her ingest the acid.
The Supreme Court ruled that proving mens rea is essential for abetment of suicide under Section 306 of the IPC. In a case involving a man and his family accused of motivating his wife’s suicide, the court determined insufficient evidence of intent to sustain charges, emphasizing a critical temporal link between instigation and the act.