The court said the allegations would not include physical and mental cruelty.

New Delhi:

The Aurangabad bench of the Bombay High Court has quashed the conviction of a man and his family on allegations that they did not allow his wife to watch television, go to temple, meet neighbors and force her to sleep on the carpet.

A single judge, Justice Abhay S Waghwase, said the above-mentioned actions against the now-dead woman would not constitute “serious” under the offense of cruelty under Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code. ViveLaw reported. The court said the allegations would not include physical and mental cruelty as far as the internal affairs of the accused are concerned.

The court also dismissed the claim of the woman’s relatives that she was forced to fetch water at midnight, after the man’s family stated that in their village water supply started there at that time and that all households They went to get water at 1.30 am.

The man and his family had previously been convicted by a lower court based on the case that ill-treatment had led the woman to suicide on May 1, 2002. “There is a gap of almost two months since the death” says the plaintiff. and the witnesses met. They (mother, uncle and aunt of the deceased) have admitted that there was no written or oral communication from the deceased, she has not conveyed that there was any case of cruelty close to suicide. “There is evidence to show that at that relevant time or in any proximity to the suicide, there was some demand, cruelty or mistreatment to connect them with the suicidal death, what triggered the suicide remains a mystery,” the high court said.