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“To convict a person for abetment of suicide under Section 306 IPC, there has to be a clear mens rea on the part of the accused to abet such a crime and it requires an active act or a direct act leading to the commission of suicide.
The family of four committed suicide near railway tracks, allegedly due to atrocious and forcible demand for money which they owed to co-accused.
At this stage, averments made in the petition that the allegations levelled against accused is false, cannot be looked into while exercising powers under Section 528 of the Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023.
The Court opined that is important to acknowledge that individuals vary in their sensitivity and temperament. It is not solely the feelings of the deceased that would matter, but most importantly, the intention behind the act of the accused would also have to be discerned.
“If a person committing suicide is hypersensitive and the allegations attributed to the accused are otherwise not ordinarily expected to induce a similarly situated person to take the extreme step to commit suicide, it will be unsafe to hold the accused guilty of abetment of suicide.”
“The deceased was frustrated on account of work pressure and was feeling the pressure of working in two different districts.”
Supreme Court raised doubts that if prosecution version was to be believed, there had to be presence of syringe and needle or a container at the scene of occurrence.
Supreme Court commented that “the criminal justice system of ours can itself be a punishment” as happened in the instant matter which started in 1993 and came to an end in 2024, after 30 years of suffering.
Calcutta High Court noted that the victim was a minor on the date of the alleged suicide, which prima facie invoked Section 305 of the IPC.
Madhya Pradesh High Court quashed the FIR and consequential criminal proceedings arising thereafter.
In the case at hand, a man had shot himself dead following a monetary dispute with the 74-year-old Advocate’s sone and two others.
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Punjab and Haryana High Court: Vikas Bahl, J., granted bail to mother-in-law and wife alleged to have incited husband to commit suicide.
Bombay High Court: Division Bench of M.S. Sonal and Pushpa V. Ganediwala, JJ., quashed the charges of abetment of suicide and other offences
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‘Abetment’ involves mental process of instigating a person or intentionally aiding a person in doing of a thing.
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Allahabad High Court: Dinesh Kumar Singh-I, J., while discussing abetment of suicide, stated that: “…if some act either of omission or commission