Indian Evidence Act, 1872
113A.
Presumption as to abetment of suicide by a married women
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 circumstance s 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 498 A of the Indian Panel Code (45 of 1860).