A Delhi court has acquitted a man whose wife allegedly died by consuming poison at her matrimonial home on being subjected to cruelty in west Delhi’s Tilak Nagar in 2017.
Additional Sessions Judge Pooran Chand acquitted the husband and his brother as the parents of the deceased, on whose statements the police had lodged an FIR, refused to support the prosecution during the trial.
A total of five witnesses gave evidence. Two of them were the parents of the deceased whom the court described as star witnesses. The other three witnesses were police personnel.
“From the testimony of the parents of the deceased, no incriminating evidence to satisfy the ingredients of section 306 IPC i.e. for abatement of suicide and section 498A IPC i.e. for subjecting a woman to cruelty have come on record. The parents of deceased have not levelled any allegation of cruelty by which the deceased was compelled to commit suicide by consuming poison,” the Judge said.
“There is no evidence to prove the charge against both the accused persons under section 498A/306/34 IPC,” the judgment read.