Can breaking up and advising a partner to marry someone else amount to abetment to suicide? Supreme Court answers
Supreme Court remarked that broken relationships and heart breaks are part of everyday life.
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Whether insisting the deceased to repay the loan borrowed and telling him to die amounts to abetment to suicide? Karnataka HC answers
In the case of suicide, mere allegation of harassment of the deceased by another person would not suffice unless there be such an action on the part of the accused which compels the person to commit suicide.
Supreme Court grants regular bail to pregnant woman accused of abetting husband’s suicide
Earlier, the Supreme Court vide order dated 30-06-2023, had ordered release of the accused on interim bail, as she was pregnant.
Punjab and Haryana High Court: Woman committing suicide in matrimonial home does not itself make husband and in-laws liable under Section 306 IPC
The Court said that without a positive act on the part of the accused to instigate or aid in committing suicide, conviction cannot be sustained.
Admonishing wife for having illicit intimacy will not amount to abetting wife to commit suicide: Telangana High Court
A wife having illicit intimacy with another person will adversely affect the husband and family, both personally and in society. The husband cannot sit quite if the wife is having illicit intimacy with another person.
For proving threat under S. 364-A IPC, intimidation of kidnapped victim, for the purpose of making him silent, cannot be enough.: SC
Supreme Court said that if the sentence carrying a maximum sentence of death and a minimum sentence of life sentence has such low evidentiary threshold, the difference between punishments for kidnapping under 363, 364 and 364-A shall become meaningless.
Entry of authorised Bank employee in secured property premises for taking possession doesn’t fall under “House Trespass”: Calcutta High Court
While quashing the impugned criminal proceeding against the petitioners, the Court held that a defaulter borrower holds the secured asset only in trust or symbolic possession and even if the petitioners have entered the said property, the same cannot be marked out as trespassers in other’s’ property.
MP Mohan Delkar Suicide| Why Bombay High Court quashed FIRs against Dadra and Nagar Haveli UT Administrator Praful Khoda Patel and 8 others
Bombay High Court: While deliberating upon the instant writ petitions for quashment of FIR registered in connection with the suicide of prominent
Bombay HC| “Sudden reaction of a 19-year-old boy to the news of pregnancy, May fall short of the essential ingredients required to form the offence of abetment to suicide”
Bombay High Court: While deciding the instant bail application of a 20-year-old boy charged with abetment of suicide of a
Andhra Pradesh High Court | Mere allegations of pressure or harassment at workplace will not suffice to attract ingredients of S. 306 IPC; Proof of instigation and abetment is necessary
Andhra Pradesh High Court: Subba Reddy Satti J. granted anticipatory bail to the Chief Executing Officer (applicant-accused) as on perusal
Conspiracy and abetment of corruption; SC holds section 13 of Prevention of Corruption Act cannot be invoked against non-public servant
Supreme Court: While dealing with a case of abetment and conspiracy for commission of criminal misconduct by public servant, the Division Bench
Subway Restaurant Robbery; Canada Court holds Appellate Court cannot not mechanically limit scope of re-trial to a particular theory of liability on a single charge
Supreme Court of Canada: The Bench comprising of Wagner C.J. and Moldaver, Côté, Brown, Rowe, Martin and Kasirer JJ., held that appellate
23 years after his wife’s death, a man walks free as SC sets aside his conviction for abetting her suicide based on ‘speculations’ and ‘inferences’
“The Trial Court and the High Court speculated on the unnatural death and without any evidence concluded only through conjectures, that the appellant is guilty of abetting the suicide of his wife.”
Bom HC | If a banker refuses to grant loan on an already outstanding amount, would the said act amount to instigation under S. 107 of IPC? HC pronounces a reasoned order
Bombay High Court: A Division Bench of V.M. Deshpande and Anil S. Kilor, JJ., held that if the prosecution fails prima facie to
FEMA Appellate Tribunal | Active involvement and intentional aiding must be present in order to constitute an offence of abetment
Appellate Tribunal for SAFEMA, FEMA, PMLA, NDPS & PBPT Act: Justice Manmohan Singh (Chairman) allowed an appeal challenging the impugned Judgment wherein
Bom HC | Mere giving an aid does not make the act of abetment of an offence, if the person who gave the aid did not know that offence was being committed or contemplated
Bombay High Court: A.M. Badar, J. addressed the present appeal challenging the Judgment and order of the trial court by setting aside
Guj HC | Cooperating with the investigating agency entitles accused for bail
Gujarat High Court: The Bench of Vipul M. Pancholi, J. allowed a petition seeking anticipatory bail subject to certain restrictions. In the pertinent
P&H HC | Proof of direct or indirect acts of incitement to the commission of suicide required to prove abetment of suicide
Punjab and Haryana High Court: The Bench of Arvind Singh Sangwan, J. set aside an order framing charges under Sections 306 and
Husband acquitted from charge of abetting wife’s suicide on absence of instigation or provocation
Calcutta High Court: A Division Bench comprising of Md. Mumtaz Khan and Jay Sengupta, JJ. partly allowed the appeal of the appellant-husband
Seeking financial help from wife does not by itself amount to cruelty
Bombay High Court: A criminal appeal preferred by the appellant against the order of his conviction and sentence passed by the trial