Supreme Court: Defining the scope and ambit of the term ‘mental cruelty’ under Section 498A of IPC, the Court held that a man permitting his first wife to live in the house of second wife, due to which the second wife has allegedly committed suicide, does not amount to mental cruelty. The Court, acquitting the appellant of charges under the said provision, held that where the acts of the accused were neither of such a nature as is likely to drive the woman to commit suicide nor as to cause grave injury or danger to life, limb or health (whether mental or physical) of the woman, the man cannot be said to have mentally tortured the woman to an unbearable extent. Kantilal Martaji Pandor V. State of Gujarat, CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1567 of 2007, decided on July 25, 2013]
Posted on: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 08:10:39 +0000
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