Supreme Court · 2009 INSC 1228 · Decided 11 November 2009
Amalendu Pal @ Jhantu v. State of West Bengal
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2009 INSC 1228 · [2009] 15 S.C.R. 836
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 2091/2009
- Decided
- 11 November 2009
- Bench
- MUKUNDAKAM SHARMA, RAJENDRA MAL LODHA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 306, 34, 498A, 107
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: s. 306 - Applicability of - Held: For applicability of s. 306, there must be a case of suicide and in the commission of C suicide, person said to have abetted it must have played active role by an act of instigation or by doing certain act to facilitate the commission of suicide appellant brought another woman to his house - Allegations of mental and physical torture on deceased-wife - After about three months. o of second marriage by the appellant, deceased committed suicide - Conviction of appellant by courts below under s.306 not maintainable as from the period of
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