A recent judgment of Bombay High Court has said that wife's mentally unstable condition who committed suicide later was not sufficient to convict husband under IPC 498a.http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report_wife-s-mentally-disturbed-condition-not-enough-to-prove-husband-s-cruelty-says-high-court_1327888Read the bold sentences especially:Mumbai: A soured marriage and the resultant disturbed mental condition of a woman who committed suicide were not sufficient reasons to infer that the husband subjected her to cruelty, the Bombay high court ruled earlier this month.Setting aside the two-year imprisonment sentence handed out to Kamalkishore Agrawal, 48, by a sessions court, the Nagpur bench of the high court held that, "though it appears that the victim and the applicant had marital discord … [Read more...] about Wife’s mentally disturbed condition not enough to prove husband’s cruelty under IPC 498a