Supreme Court says husband not liable for wife’s suicide over extra-marital affair The Supreme Court on Monday held that a man cannot be held guilty of subjecting his wife to cruelty if he embarks on an extramarital relationship, unless the intimacy is of a nature that can drive the wife to commit suicide. “We are
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Section 498 A of the Indian Penal Code deals with domestic violence and cruelty towards women by husband or family. Between 2007 and 2013, the number of cases registered under the Section has gone up but the conviction rate for these cases has come down. Sec 498A of IPC has been one of the fiercely
My bed-ridden father assaulted my father-in-law, I clutched her neck and then banged her head against the wall, and we constantly tortured my wife demanding a dowry of `1,000,000….,” thus begins the video, The Chair: I wish I never got married. A first person account of a harassed husband who recounts the suffering he went through
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Reference- http://www.newdelhitimes.com/woman-there-is-nothing-worse-than-crying-wolf123/ Namrata(name changed), had got married only five months ago and she had hardly had time to adjust with her new family and husband, her mother calls her 10 times a day, checking up on her and dissecting every single thing that was being said in her in- laws house. Soon she became aggressive and
referencehttp://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/ahmedabad/others/Court-rejects-alimony-of-woman-over-extramarital-affair/articleshow/47901017.cms Afamily court has rejected a woman’s petition seeking maintenance from her ex-husband. Shabnam (name changed), a 29-year-old who has been living with her parents for the past five years at Gaikwad Haveli, had filed a complaint against her husband Arbaaz (name changed), 33, who had thrown her out of the house and sought alimony
Supreme Court says husband not liable for wife’s suicide over extra-marital affair The Supreme Court on Monday held that a man cannot be held guilty of subjecting his wife to cruelty if he embarks on an extramarital relationship, unless the intimacy is of a nature that can drive the wife to commit suicide. “We are
To constitute an offence under IPC, prosecution has to establish beyond reasonable doubt that suicide was abetted by accused Extramarital relationship of the husband with his female colleague will not constitute an offence of ‘cruelty’ under the Indian Penal Code if the wife commits suicide fearing alienation from husband, the Supreme Court held on Monday.
