A 13-day silence between a married couple ultimately became the basis of a husband's conviction and three-year jail sentence. But the Supreme Court has now set aside that ruling, saying that merely not speaking to a spouse for a few days cannot, on its own, be treated as marital cruelty, TOI reports.
A bench of Justices J K Maheshwari and Atul S Chand acquitted a man who had been convicted under Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code and sentenced to three years in prison. The conviction had been upheld by the Madras High Court.
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