Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 76 · Decided 16 January 2025
Mahendra Awase v. The State of Madhya Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 76 · [2025] 2 S.C.R. 80
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 221/2025
- Decided
- 16 January 2025
- Bench
- ABHAY S. OKA, K.V. VISWANATHAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- BNS Section 108, 45; IPC Section 306, 107
Headnote
Whether the High Court was justified in declining the prayer of the appellant to discharge him from the offences under Section 306, Penal Code, 1860. Penal Code, 1860 - s.306 - Abetment of suicide - Charges framed against the appellant to commit suicide: Held: No - For conviction u/s.306, the person who is said to have abetted the commission of suicide must have played an active role by an act of instigation or by doing certain act to facilitate the commission of suicide - Such act of abetment must be proved
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