New Delhi: The husband can be publicly bouncing in ‘impotent’ and ‘infertile’ by his disgusting wife and hurting relatives near her, but they cannot be a hatred for a person to die from suicide after a month, the Supreme Court has said.
An engineer married an MBA woman in September 2013. Barely two months later, their relationship got tension and his parents and relatives came to the man’s house and abused him and his family in a dirty language and insulted him as ‘impotent’ and infertile. They took him to his parents’ house.
He allegedly threatened to slap a false dowry case against him and his parents to arrest them. He used to commit suicide exactly a month after this incident as he went into depression when he was embarrassed. His mother gave the police torn pages of his diary, which went through his harassment. Police accused the woman and her relatives under Section 306 IPC (To commit suicideHC dismissed its arguments to end the case.
To deal with the appeal against HC order, a bench of Justice, as Oka and AG Masih, said, “While alleged remarks – the masculinity of the deceased may be hurt and can affect a person’s dignity, but it can affect the dignity of a person, but it in itself and especially after an interval of about a month between the event and especially between the event.
The bench stated that between the woman and her relatives and the man, either on the person or phone, there was no contact to indicate any pressure to indicate constant harassment or torture or any kind of pressure, so that the man could be obliged to take drastic steps.
Writing the decision, Justice Maasih said, “From the suicide note, no detention can be said that the accused has encouraged the deceased or there is constant cruelty or harassment that would commit the crime of suicide.”
