The respondent’s wife had died by suicide after dousing herself with kerosene and setting herself ablaze.
The incident was stated to have occurred after a midnight phone call with her husband, during which conversation the husband refused to accede to the victim’s plea to “come back” to a certain place. The husband is stated to have responded by telling his wife to go back to the place she came from.
The prosecution submitted that the wife set herself ablaze after being enraged by her husband’s response.
The victim died from her injuries on the way to the hospital. In a statement made before her death, she said that it was her husband who was responsible for driving her to take the extreme step of ending her life.
The High Court, however, noted that there was nothing to indicate that the husband anticipated that his wife would die by suicide owing to his remarks.
Source: Barandbench
