Section 114CState of Jammu-Kashmir Act
Section 114C: Presumption as to abetment of by a married woman
Presumption as to abetment of by a married woman.
- When the question is whether the commission of suicide by a women had been abetted by the husband or any relative of her husband and it is shown that she had committed suicide suicide within a period of seven years from the date of her marriage and that her husband or such relative of her husband had subjected her to cruelty, the Court may presume, having regard to all the other circumstances of the case, that such suicide had been abetted by her husband or by such relative of her husband.Explanation. - For the purposes of this section, "Cruelty" shall have same meaning as in section 498-A of the State Ranbir Penal Code. Samvat, 1989.]Previous
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