Silence of abused woman not exception but norm Supreme Court

…their spouse. .It said as per the survey, "of the women who had experienced such violence, on the order of three-fourths never sought help from any quarter and never so much as disclosed the violence to any person". ." These figures, drawn from the largest such survey in the country, establish that the silence of abused woman is not the exception but the norm, and that the failure to report is the overwhelmingly common response and not an aberration calling for suspicion ," the apex court said. .The bench commuted the death sentence handed down to the man to a jail term for the remainder of his natural life. .The apex court delivered its verdict on an appeal filed by the convict…