The court said that a wife’s husband secretly married another woman is a “sufficient motive” for her to commit suicide.
Digital Desk: While dismissing a petition, the Allahabad High Court on Monday ruled that a married woman is highly possessive of her spouse and cannot stand to share him with others.
Justice Rahul Chaturvedi’s bench made the remark while upholding a trial court ruling dismissing a discharge plea filed by a man accused of aiding and abetting his wife’s suicide. According to the court, the accused, Sushil Kumar, had married for the third time, and this was the sole reason for his wife’s suicide.
The court said that a wife’s husband secretly married another woman is a “sufficient motive” for her to commit suicide.
“They (Indian wives) are entirely dedicated to their husbands. Any married woman would be shocked to learn that her husband is sharing his bed with another woman or that he is planning to marry another woman. It would be unthinkable to expect sanity from them in such an unpleasant position. Exactly the same thing happened in this case as well.” the bench stated.
The case concerns an immediate revision petition filed by the spouse of a woman who committed suicide. Before she died, the deceased woman had filed an FIR under numerous sections of the IPC against her husband, Sushil Kumar and his six family members at the Manduadih police station in Varanasi. This included charges of intentionally causing harm, criminal intimidation, and remarrying during the spouse’s lifetime.
The wife in its FIR had said that her husband was already married with two children and that he wedded for the third time without getting a divorce. She had also claimed that her husband and in-laws abused her and tortured her emotionally.
Reportedly, soon after filling the FIR, the woman is said to have consumed poison and died. The husband and his family members were charged after police initiated an inquiry. The accused first filed a plea for discharge in the trial court, which was denied.
They then went to the Allahabad High Court for help. The high court dismissed the accused’s plea, stating that there was sufficient evidence to charge them.
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