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'Calling wife useless and stupid reflects temperamental issue, not criminal cruelty': Supreme Court quashes FIR against husband

'Calling wife useless and stupid reflects temperamental issue, not criminal cruelty': Supreme Court quashes FIR against husband

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    New Delhi: The Supreme Court has ruled that a husband’s habit of calling his wife “useless” and “stupid” is merely a temperamental shortcoming and cannot be stretched into the offence of criminal intimidation or grievous hurt so as to make him criminally responsible for her suicide. Doing so would…

    — Deccan Herald

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New Delhi: The Supreme Court has ruled that a husband’s habit of calling his wife “useless” and “stupid” is merely a temperamental shortcoming and cannot be stretched into the offence of criminal intimidation or grievous hurt so as to make him criminally responsible for her suicide. Doing so would…

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