Section 113A IEA, dealing with presumption of abetment of suicide by a married woman, provides for the presumption only when the suicide occurs:
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: C.
1. Section 113A IEA (inserted 1983) provides: '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 circumstances of the case, that such suicide had been abetted by her husband or by such relative of her husband.'
2. 'Cruelty' has the same meaning as in Section 498A IPC.
3. The presumption is permissive ('may'), not mandatory.
4. Pinakin Mahipatray Rawal (2013) discussed the application standards.
5. Hence option A is correct.
_Source: Indian Penal Code 1860 / Code of Criminal Procedure 1973 / Indian Evidence Act 1872 (Bare Acts, indiacode.nic.in) — Indian Evidence Act, Section 113A; IPC Section 498A; Pinakin Mahipatray Rawal v. State of Gujarat, (2013) 10 SCC 48_
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