Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 306 -- Abetment of suicide - There is no principle of law that wherever wife commits suicide, the husband will bear the responsibility and will be held liable - No doubt that in such cases, if prosecution discharges its initial burden of proof of guilt and has proved the relationship between abetment by husband and suicide by wife, accused..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 306 -- Abetment of suicide - Death by burning - Mental illness of deceased is admitted much earlier in time before date of death - Husband of deceased is habitual drunkard since marriage and in habit of causing harassment in drunken state and both have passed more than 15 years of marriage as such giving birth to four children, general..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 306, 411 -- Abetment of suicide - Prosecution examined three PWs which is in the nature of hearsay - PWs stated that accused being father, grandfather and step mother of deceased were not treating her well which led her to commit suicide - However, evidence on record shows that deceased pursing her study and her engagement ceremony was also..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 306, Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 482 -- Abetment of suicide - Quashing of FIR - Deceased aged 15 years, committed suicide because he was humiliated in presence of his classmate which had a grave mental impact - He shared the same with his friend vide Instagram - FIR discloses commission of a cognizable offence - Police concluded..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 498A, 306 -- Offence u/ss 498-A, 306 - Suicide on 07.01.1990 - Letter written by deceased regarding cruelty received by father of deceased on 10.01.1990 but handed over to police on 13.01.1990 - Deceased had never written any other letter to her family after her marriage but had rather been in touch with her relatives through telephone -..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 498A, 306 -- Cruelty - Abetment of suicide - Allegation of cruelty raised for the first time at the time of filing FIR which was lodged after a delay of one and a half day - Prosecution did not examine neighbour of deceased and appellant to substantiate allegation of ill-treatment - Reliance on general oral testimonies of prosecution..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 498A, 306 -- Cruelty - Abetment of suicide - Cruelty - Instances testified by witnesses - Said incidents had taken place much before the deceased's death - Could not be treated as conduct which drove deceased to commit suicide...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 306 -- Abetment of suicide - `Go and die' - Mere utterance of word by accused towards deceased in a quarrel or on spur of moment that he should go and die cannot be considered as an instigation by accused for deceased to commit suicide, as no mens rea on part of accused in uttering those words can be gathered from evidence of PWs - Accused..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 306, 107 -- Abetment of suicide - Instigation - To satisfy requirement of instigation, though it is not necessary that actual words must be used to that effect but what constitutes instigation must necessarily and specifically be suggestive of consequence...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 306 -- Abetment of suicide - Illicit relationship of wife of deceased with accused - Alleged illicit relationship is not a new matter and same was to knowledge of deceased - Further, in said long duration deceased appears to have not taken any steps against accused or to ensure that illicit relationship would come to an end - Even after..........
