Supreme Court · 2010 INSC 521 · Decided 17 August 2010
Madan Mohan Singh v. State of Gujarat and ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2010 INSC 521 · [2010] 10 S.C.R. 351
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1291/2008
- Decided
- 17 August 2010
- Bench
- V.S. SIRPURKAR, CYRIAC JOSEPH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 306, 294(b), 107; CrPC Section 482
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 - ss. 306 and 294(b) - Driver employed in a project, found dead - Purported suicide note A B in which deceased stated that he was being harassed and C rebuked by his officer - FIR - Prosecution of officer for offences punishable u/ss.306 and 294(b) - Challenge to - Held: On facts, note was suspicious - Even otherwise, no nexus or proximity found between the so-called suicide and any of the alleged acts on D the part of the officer - The a/legations made could not reasonably be viewed as suggesting that the officer had intended or engineered the suicide of the deceased
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