Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 107 -- Abetment - Abetment involves a mental process of instigating a person or intentionally aiding a person in doing of a thing - Without a positive act on the part of the accused to instigate or aid in committing suicide, conviction cannot be sustained...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 107 -- `Abetment' - A person is said to abet the commission of suicide when he instigates any person to do that thing as stated in clause firstly or to do anything as stated in clauses secondly or thirdly of S.107 IPC - S.109 IPC provides that if the act abetted is committed pursuant to and in consequence of abetment then the offender is to..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 107, 306, 498A -- Suicide - Abetment - Husband solemnizing second marriage - For a male to have more than one wife was a part of custom and culture of the society of accused and deceased - In such circumstances second marriage of husband cannot be a cause to commit suicide and for this reason accused cannot be blamed to have abetted the..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 107, 306, 498A -- Suicide - Abetment - Illegal relationship - By itself not sufficient to hold accused guilty of offence of abetment of suicide - Illicit relationship may be a reason for suicide, but cannot be said to be abetment which requires a positive step to be taken by person to induce the commission of the offence...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 107 -- Abetment - A person can be said to have abetted in doing a thing, if he, firstly, instigates any person to do that thing; or secondly, engages with one or more other person or persons in any conspiracy for the doing of that thing, if an act or illegal omission takes place in pursuance of that conspiracy, and in order to the doing of..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 107 -- Instigate - Where the accused by his acts or omission or by a continued course of conduct, created such circumstances that the deceased was left with no other option except to commit suicide, in which case, an `instigation' may have to be inferred...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 107 -- Instigate - To constitute `instigation', a person who instigates another has to provoke, incite, urge or encourage doing of an act by the other by `goading' or `urging forward'...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 107 -- Abetment - In order to prove that the accused abetted commission of suicide by a person, it has to be established that: (i) the accused kept on irritating or annoying the deceased by words, deeds or wilful omission or conduct which may even be a wilful silence until the deceased reacted or pushed or forced the deceased by his deeds,..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 107, 306 -- Suicide - Abetment - A person, who instigates or aids another to do a thing, abets him to do that thing - An overt act or some act or omission, which instigates/aids the victim to commit suicide is a sine qua non - Moreover, the said act or omission must be the immediate cause of the suicide - Presence of mens rea is a necessary..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 306, 107 -- Suicide result of a petty civil dispute blown out of all proportion - If it led to the deceased extinguishing his own life, the blame cannot be thrown at someone else's door...........
