For all those scared of conviction in IPC 498A, because “my in-laws are powerful”, “my in-laws have connections”, “they have a false witnesses lined up”, and so on; this judgment may come as a relief. Or maybe not. Anyway, I am just reporting it. The key point is that conviction under IPC 498A needs mental cruelty of a kind likely to drive a wife to suicide. Husband's illicit relationship is not always cruelty: SC The bench noted that the husband and wife had started living separately in the same house. "True, there is some evidence about the illicit relationship and even if the same is proven, we are of the considered opinion that cruelty, as envisaged under the first limb of Section 498A IPC, would not get attracted. It would be difficult to hold that the mental … [Read more...] about Husband’s adultery need not be cruelty under IPC 498A: Supreme Court