chandigarh saatik gulati a resident of sector 19 who was charged with abetment to suicide has been acquitted by a local court gulati was arrested and charged under section 306 of the ipc after the death of his wife renu who had immolated herself in june 2010 the local court acquitted gulati citing that the witnesses had refused to support the version of prosecution which failed to prove its case against the accused the judgment came in december 2010renu a resident of sector 46 had immolated herself outside saatiks sector19 residence after the accused had allegedly met her family earlier in the day on june 6 2010 the victim was rushed to pgi with 90 burns and had died during the treatment sources said the two were in in a relationship and had married secretly in april the same year renu used to work in a sector38 bookshop owned by saatik and had left the job about a year ago