Presumption as to abetment of suicide by a married woman.—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.
Explanation.—For the purposes of this section, “cruelty” shall have the same meaning as in
section 86 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023.