Demanding money from wife is a “vague term” and can’t be harassment as per IPC’s Section 498A, the Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court ruled while acquitting a man who was accused of abetting wife’s suicide nine years after their marriage.

“The evidence is with regard to quarrel between husband and wife where he used to beat her for money. The demand of money is a vague term and in absence of other particulars to establish the link, the offence of harassment, as contemplated under Section 498-A of the IPC, isn’t made out,” justice Pushpa Ganediwala held, while allowing petitioner Prashant Jare’s appeal for acquittal, stated a report in The Times of India.