The Economic Times

'Not speaking not marital cruelty': SC frees husband sentenced to jail over wife's suicide after 13 days of silence between them

Supreme Court has acquitted a man convicted of cruelty after his wife died by suicide, ruling that 13 days of non-communication between spouses cannot, by itself, amount to marital cruelty. Setting aside the conviction upheld by the Madras High Court, the court said ordinary marital differences and temporary silence do not automatically meet the legal threshold required under Section 498A.