Listen: Affair = Abetment of Suicide? SC Gets it Dangerously Wrong

Having an extramarital affair amounts to abetment of suicide? Supreme Court junks years of precedent to say yes!

Can having an extramarital affair be considered abetment to suicide? Yes, according to Justices R Banumathi and Vineet Saran of the Supreme Court.

In a judgment that could have dangerous implications, the apex court has held that a Karnataka man abetted the suicide of his wife, on the sole basis that he had been having an “illicit relationship with another woman”.