Khushi Gupta
Published on: May 4, 2022 at 15:04 IST
The Allahabad High Court has observed no Indian woman can share her husband with anyone else and stay sane in such a case, dismissing an Appeal for discharge of a polygamous man, accused of abetting suicide by his second wife.
“No Indian woman can share her husband at any cost. They are literally possessive about their husbands,” Justice Chaturvedi observed, dismissing the accused Plea.
“It would be the biggest jolt for any married woman that her husband is being shared by some other lady or he is going to marry some other lady. In such an awkward situation, it would be impossible to expect any sanity from them,” the Judge said.
The Case pertains to Varanasi resident Sushil Kumar, who is facing a probe into the alleged Suicide by his ‘second wife’ who took the extreme step a day after lodging an First Information Report against him at a Police Station there on September 22, 2018.
Ruing the Suicide by the woman, the Court said, “Coming to know that her husband got married in a clandestine way with some other lady is more than sufficient reason to commit suicide.”
“Sushil Kumar, the husband seems to be the main culprit at least to be tried for the Offence under Section 306 of the Indian Penal Code (Abetment of Suicide),” the Judge said, dismissing Kumar’s Appeal.
“It is the deceased herself who lodged the First Information Report against all the revisionists (woman’s husband and in-laws) for committing Atrocities upon her and these charges could be tested only at the time of the Trial and as such, no good ground for discharge exists,” the Judge added.
Kumar’s second wife lodged an First Information Report against her husband and all his family members on September 22, 2018 under Sections 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 379 (stealing property), 494 (marrying despite having a living spouse), 504 (insulting deliberately) and 506 (threatening) of the Indian Penal Code.
After going through the Facts and Material on record, the Court said, “It is clear that deceased lodged the present First Information Report against her husband and other in-laws for atrocities during her lifetime. Admittedly, the deceased was his second wife allegedly married in 2010 and she has got one son with the Revisionist (Kumar).”