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Section 436 in The Indian Penal Code, 1860 [Entire Act]
Section 307 in The Indian Penal Code, 1860 [Entire Act]
The Indian Penal Code, 1860
Section 34 in The Indian Penal Code, 1860 [Entire Act]
State Of West Bengal vs Orilal Jaiswal And Another on 25 September, 1993
In State of West Bengal Vs. Orilal Jaiswal & Another,
reported in IV(1993) CCR392 (SC) = (1994) DMC 138 (SC)= (1994)
SCC 73 the Hon'ble Apex Court has cautioned that the Court should
be extremely careful in assessing the facts and circumstances of each
case and the evidence adduced in the trail for the purpose of finding
whether the cruelty meted out to the victim had in fact induced her to
end the life by committing suicide. If it appears to the Court that a
victim committing suicide was hypersensitive to ordinary petulance,
discord and difference in domestic life quite common to the society to
which the victim belonged and such petulance, discord and difference
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were not expected to induce a similarly circumstanced individual in a
given society to commit suicide, the conscience of the Court should
not be satisfied for basing a finding that the accused charged of
abetting the offence of suicide should be found guilty.
Smt. Mamta Sahu vs The State (Nct Of Delhi) on 16 September, 2005
Also in the case of Mamta Sahu (Smt.) Vs. State of
Delhi reported in 124 (2005) DLT 300 the Hon'ble Supreme Court
has highlighted the ingredients of Section 306 of the Indian Penal
Code i.e. the offence of abetment of suicide in the following words:
Randhir Singh And Anr vs State Of Punjab on 12 October, 2004
".....The legal position as regards Sections 306 IPC
which is long settled was recently reiterated by this
Court in the case of Randhir Singh v. State of
Punjab (2004) 13 SCC 129: (2004 AIR SCW 5832)
as follows in paras 12 and 13:
State Of W.B vs Orilal Jaiswal on 23 September, 1993
In State of W.B v. Orilal Jaiswal (1994 AIR
SCW 844), this Court has observed that the courts
should be extremely careful in assessing the facts
and circumstances of each case and the evidence
adduced in the trial for the purpose of finding
whether the cruelty meted out to the victim had
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infact induced her to end the life by committing
suicide. If it transpires to the court that a victim
committing suicide was hypersensitive or ordinary
petulance,discord and differences in domestic life
quite common to the society to which the victim
belonged and such petulance, discord and
differences were not expected to induce a similarly
circumstanced individual in a given society to
commit suicide, the conscience of the court should
not be satisfied for basing a finding that the accused
charged of abetting the offence of suicide should be
found guilty."