New Delhi, May 14 -- The Delhi high court on Tuesday said that a husband's extramarital affair does not amount to cruelty or abetment to suicide unless it is pursued with the intent to harass the wife or drive her to take her life. Granting bail to a man in a dowry death case, justice Sanjeev Narula said, "Even assuming such a relationship existed, the law is settled that an extramarital affair, per se, does not amount to cruelty...or abetment under Section 306 IPC, unless it is shown that the relationship was pursued in a manner calculated to harass or torment the deceased." He noted that, for a charge of abetment to suicide, there must be a "clearly discernible act of instigation, provocation, or intentional omission." Mere suspicion of a...