applicants have not played any passive role in
the instigating the deceased to commit the suicide. In absence of any prima
facie case against ... commit suicide and as a result of such
instigation the other person commits suicide, the person causing the
instigation is liable to be punished under
Pradhan
vs State of Uttaranchal and Ors.8 (―Praveen Pradhan‖), instigation to
commit suicide has to be gathered from the circumstances of a particular
case ... direct evidence in regard to
instigation which may have direct nexus to suicide, an inference has to be
drawn from the circumstances to determine whether
suicide' which reads as under:-
"306. Abetment of suicide - If any person
commits suicide, whoever abets the commission
of such suicide, shall ... 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
commit suicide and as a result of
such instigation the other person commits suicide, the person causing the
instigation is liable to be punished under ... deceased was left with no
other option except to commit suicide, an instigation may be inferred.
Their Lordships in the aforesaid case of Chitresh Kumar
deceased to commit suicide. Section 306 of Indian Penal Code reads as
under:
306. Abetment of suicide.- If any person commit suicide, whoever abets ... suicide
in his oral suicide note, it cannot be assumed that the applicant abetted the
deceased for committing suicide. For abetment to commit suicide there
reproduced hereinunder:-
"306. Abetment of suicide - If any person
commits suicide, whoever abets the
commission of such suicide, shall be punished
with imprisonment ... step of
committing suicide to punish his tormentors in
his own way. This cannot be termed as
"abetment to commit suicide." Following
suggested, goaded or
provoked to commit suicide and that, the accused intended to
abet the deceased to commit suicide, a prosecution for offence ... committed
suicide leaving a suicidal note. Accepting the plea
that the act of the accused might have been a
reason for committing suicide
under:-
"306. Abetment of suicide
If any person commits suicide, whoever
abets the commission of such suicide, shall be
punished with imprisonment of either ... 3515/2017
39
son committed suicide leaving a suicide note.
True translation of said suicide note is to the
following effect:
"Sir Police Station
herein under:-
"306. Abetment of suicide.--If any person commits
suicide, whoever abets the commission of such suicide,
shall be punished with imprisonment ... commit
suicide seeing no option and that act must have
been intended to push the deceased into such a
position that he committed suicide
herein under:-
"306. Abetment of suicide.--If any person commits
suicide, whoever abets the commission of such suicide,
shall be punished with imprisonment ... commit
suicide seeing no option and that act must have
been intended to push the deceased into such a
position that he committed suicide