Supreme Court · 2024 INSC 177 · Decided 21 February 2024
M. Vijayakumar v. State of Tamil Nadu
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2024 INSC 177 · [2024] 2 S.C.R. 1054
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1078/2024
- Decided
- 21 February 2024
- Bench
- C.T. RAVIKUMAR, RAJESH BINDAL (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 306, 106; Evidence Act Section 106
Headnote
Prosecution, if succeeded in establishing that there was mens rea on the part of the appellant to commit the offence rather to push the victim to commit suicide and to attract the offence u/s. 306, IPC. Penal Code, 1860 - s. 306 - Abetment of suicide sustainable - Prosecution case that the appellant and others abducted and wrongful confined the victim for repayment of the balance amount and the inability to withstand the torment, he committed suicide - Conviction of the appellant u/ss. 306, 342 and 365 by the trial court,
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