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

New Delhi:

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

A single-judge bench of Justice Abhay S Waghwase said the above-mentioned actions against the woman, now deceased, would not amount as “severe” under the offense of cruelty under Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code. LiveLaw reported. The court said the allegations would not involve physical or mental cruelty as they related to the internal affairs of the accused.

The court also rejected the claim of the woman’s family members that she was forced to fetch water at midnight, after the man’s family said that in their village, the water supply had started at that time and all households had gone to collect water by 1:30 a.m.

The man and his family had already been convicted by a magistrate court based on a case that alleged mistreatment caused the woman to commit suicide on May 1, 2002. “There is a gap of almost two months since the death, the complainant said and the witnesses met They (the mother, uncle and aunt of the deceased) admitted that there was no communication from the deceased, nor. written or oral, that there had been no instance of cruelty bordering on suicide evidence to show that at that time At no time relevant to or close to suicide was there exigency, cruelty or. ill-treatment likely to link them to the suicidal death What triggered the suicide remained a mystery,” the High Court said.