New Delhi: If a woman is not safe in her own house, she is safe nowhere, a Delhi court has observed while slapping a 10-year jail term to a 63-year-old man whose bid to outrage the modesty of his pregnant daughter-in-law abetted her suicide.

The court observed that 'intra­familial sexual abuse' is a deep-seated malady in the social order and a crime which most of the family members tend to hide and this kind of relationship is never consensual.