Chennai: The recent SC’s ruling regarding adultery has paved a way for many men who used to have illegal illicit relations with partners other than then legally wedded wives.
Similar is the recent suicide case of a Hindu woman who committed suicide after her husband citing the SC’s ruling told her she can longer stop him from having affair as adultery is no longer a crime, TOI reports.
According to the sources, the victim Pushpalatha, 24, ended her life by hanging at the couple’s MGR Nagar residence, after her husband made these statements.
The MGR Nagar police were shocked when the husband confessed what he told to his deceased wife apart from a suicide note including the same reason was recovered from the house.
The police have sent the woman’s body to the Government Royapettah Hospital for postmortem.
John Paul Franklin aged around 27 works as security guard at a park maintained by Greater Chennai Corporation got married to Pushpalatha two years back though their respective families opposed to their decision.
The police said John had an affair when his wife fell ill and later developed tuberculosis. While she was undergoing treatment John distanced him from her said the police officer.
At first, started he stopped giving the money to run the house and later started coming home late said the neighbors.
When the victim expressed her ordeal to her husband’s friends they told him that he was having an affair.
They also said that since he was into a relationship with another woman he would sometimes stay with her away from home.
It was when the victim confronted her husband, his admittance to the affair made her heart-broken, yet she managed to warn him with a complaint but to her shocked the husband cited the recent ruling of SC on extramarital affairs.
She was left with no other choice than hanging herself to death said, neighbours.
Pushpa later committed suicide around 10.30pm on Saturday.