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21. Another decision, also cited by the learned Public Prosecutor, is pertinent to be mentioned here. In Godabarish Mishra v. Kuntla Mishra, 1997 SCC (Crl) 18,the Supreme Court held in paragraph 23 as below :

"In our view, the case of committing suicide by self-strangulation by the deceased must be ruled out. Both in Modi's Medical Jurisprudence and Toxicology and in Taloyr's Principles and Practice of Medical Jurisprudence, to which our attention was drawn by Mr. Ranjit Kumar, it has been clearly indicated that suicide by self-strangulation is very rare. For committing suicide by self-strangutation, the person committing suicide must take aid of a contrivance so as to ensure application of sufficient force until death by strangulation. Without such contrivance, sufficient force cannot be applied because initially with the application of force, insensitivity will develop for which the hands pulling the ends of the string must get loosened. In the instant case, no contrivance was noticed either by P.W. 6 and P.W. 7 who had come to examine the deceased on hearing the alarm. The accused has also not seen any contrivance at the place of incident and in her statement Under Section 313, Criminal Procedure Code, she has not disclosed any fact, which was within her special knowledge, in support of a case of suicide by self-strangulation."