Man sentenced to 7 yrs in jail for abetting wife's suicide

A court today sentenced a man to seven years of imprisonment for abetting his wife's suicide but acquitted the mother-in-law for lack of evidence.
The court also sentenced the man to three years in jail under the section on dowry but both the terms would run concurrently.
District Sessions judge Ramesh Chanrda Meena convicted Mukesh Bairwa, a resident of Teerath village of Keashoraipatan police station, and sentenced him to seven years of imprisonment under section 306 (abetment to suicide) of IPC and another three-year term in jail under section 498A (a husband subjecting his wife to cruelty for dowry), Public Prosecutor Bhupendra Sahaya Saxena said.

He said both the terms would run concurrently.
The court also imposed a penalty of the Rs. 1000 on Mukesh, he said adding the deceased's mother-in-law, Gitabai Bairwa, also an accused in the case, was acquitted on the ground of lack of evidence.
The trial lasted for around 25 months and eighteen witnesses were produced by the prosecution, he said adding the charge sheet in the case was produced in the court under section in 498 A and under section 304B (cruelty by husband on his relative) but the conviction was awarded under section 306 of IPC abetment to suicide, Saxena said.

The deceased Chotmalibai (27), wife of Mukesh Bairwa, was found hanging from the ceiling fan of her room in Teerath village on March 23, 2013.
The husband and in-laws did not inform either police or her parents and were about to start her funeral. But the deceased's father Devi Shankar Bairwa, a resident of Jhaliji ka Barana village of Gendoli police station area of the same district, approached there and prevented the funeral, following which a post mortem was carried out, the public prosecutor said.
A case was also lodged by the father in the matter against the husband and mother-in-law in Keshoraipatan police station, Saxena said.