Maharashtra, August 6: The Bombay High Court has recently clarified that asking one's wife to cook properly or do household work cannot be termed as ill-treatment. According to a Times of India report, the Court made the observation while upholding the acquittal of a Sangli resident and his parents, who were accused of making his wife commit suicide in an old case.
According to the report, the prosecution claimed that the deceased woman had consumed poison and was ill-treated, and the husband was also accused of having an illicit affair with another woman. The Court clarified that the prosecution is not being able to furnish enough evidence to prove him guilty, and the allegation are completely based on suspicion.
The accused, Vijay Shinde, and the deceased had married in 1998 and had a daughter from their marriage. According to the complaint lodged by the woman's grandfather after her death, it was said that her husband and in-laws regularly scolded her for not cooking properly or doing household work. On that day, hours before she committed suicide, the girl's maternal relatives, including her grandfather visited her, and the couple were found quarrelling. A trial judge in 2002, had acquitted the man, and his parents of all the criminal charges.
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