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News Topical, Digital Desk : Bombay High Court has recently given a big relief to the husband in a 27-year-old case. While acquitting the man, the court said that taunting a woman on her complexion and not cooking cannot be considered cruelty to such an extent that sections of harassment and abetment to suicide should be imposed on her.
A bench of Justice Shriram Modak said that though a husband taunting his wife over her dark complexion and a father-in-law taunting his wife over her cooking style may amount to harassment, it is not so serious as to merit criminal action.
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Sadashiv, a resident of Satara in Maharashtra, was convicted for abetting his wife Prema to commit suicide and cruelty. The Sessions Court held him guilty after his wife's death in 1998. After this, husband Sadashiv filed an appeal in the High Court. The Bombay High Court has given this verdict on this.
The wife committed suicide by jumping into the well
The court found on record that the deceased Prema had committed suicide by jumping into a well in January 1998. This incident happened five years after Sadashiv and Prema got married. Before dying, Prema had told her relatives that her husband often taunted her about her complexion and threatened to marry another woman.
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