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   …[Continue Reading]