Supreme Court · 2024 INSC 767 · Decided 3 October 2024
Nipun Aneja and Others v. State of Uttar Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2024 INSC 767 · [2024] 10 S.C.R. 1483
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 654/2017
- Decided
- 3 October 2024
- Bench
- J.B. PARDIWALA, MANOJ MISRA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 306
Headnote
The High Court rejected the application filed by the appellants herein seeking quashing of the criminal proceedings under section 306 of IPC. Penal Code, 1860 - s.306 - Abetment of suicide - Victim-deceased was an employee of a company that company wanted some of its employees to opt for Voluntary Retirement Scheme (VRS) - As all those employees were not ready to opt for the VRS scheme, they were being harassed in some manner or the other - It is further alleged that in a course of a office meeting the
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