Alleged Easy Character Of Wife Not Indicative Of Her Abetting Husband\’s Suicide, Mens Rea A Necessary Concomitant Of Instigation: Punjab & Haryana HC

If there is no prima facie case against the wife and no dying declaration or suicide note alleging the same, just the fact that she is allegedly a woman of easy character is not indicative of the wife abetting and inciting suicide of her husband, the Punjab and Haryana High Court has held.

In a case pertaining to a husband committing suicide and snuffing the life of his son, leaving behind a note about his wife\’s illicit affairs, Justice Vikas Bahl has noted that even if the wife has been alleged to be of easy virtue, it is not indicative of her instigating or abetting or aiding the commission of suicide by her husband.

Judgment: Maam Gujjar @ Maam Hussain v. State of Punjab

Source: www.livelaw.in