Man gets 3-year jail for abetting wife’s suicide

Thane: A local court sentenced a man to three years rigorous imprisonment for abetting the suicide of his wife but acquitted his mother for lack of evidence in Maharashtra's Thane.

District Judge RV Tamhanekar, in a recent order, also fined Bhiwandi-resident Sanjay Waghmare (26) Rs 7000. Sanjay and his wife Priyanka had married in 2016 and there were frequent fights between the couple as well as the victim and her mother-in-law Jinsabai, said Additional Public Prosecutor Sandhya Mhatre.

After one such quarrel on August 30, 2017, Priyanka set herself ablaze, the APP said, adding that she died in a nearby hospital on September 4.
In his order, the judge said, “The accused has caused cruelty to the victim and his act was of such a nature as was likely to drive Priyanka to commit suicide.”