IEA Section 113A — Presumption as to abetment of suicide by a married woman

Summary

If a married woman dies by suicide within seven years of her marriage, and it is shown that her husband or a relative of her husband had treated her cruelly, then a court may choose to assume that the husband or relative abetted the suicide. The court will make this decision only after considering all other facts of the case.

Official Text

When the question is whether the commission of suicide by a woman had been abetted by her husband or any relative of her husband and it is shown that she had committed 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.

Related Judgments

• MANGAT RAM vs STATE OF HARYANA — Supreme Court of India (2014)
• PINAKIN MAHIPATRAY RAWAL vs STATE OF GUJARAT — Supreme Court of India (2013)
• RAM PYAREY vs THE STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH — Supreme Court of India (2025)
• STATE OF RAJASTHAN vs GIRDHARI LAL — Supreme Court of India (2013)
• GURCHARAN SINGH vs STATE OF PUNJAB — Supreme Court of India (2016)
• KASHIBAI & ORS. vs THE STATE OF KARNATAKA — Supreme Court of India (2023)

Old <-> New Code Mapping

• BSA §117 — Presumption as to abetment of suicide by a married woman