Supreme Court · 2024 INSC 766 · Decided 3 September 2024
Ranjeet Mittal v. The State of Madhya Pradesh & ANR. ETC. ETC.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2024 INSC 766 · [2024] 9 S.C.R. 811
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 3680/2024
- Decided
- 3 September 2024
- Bench
- VIKRAM NATH, PRASANNA BHALACHANDRA VARALE (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 498, 34, 201; CrPC Section 482, 174
Headnote
High Court whether justified in quashing the charges against Respondent Nos.2-5 (husband and in-laws of the victim-deceased) holding that prima facie the respondents did not abet the deceased to commit suicide. Code of Criminal Procedure, Penal Code, 1860 - ss.498-A, 306, 34, 302, 201 - Victim died after allegedly falling off from terrace - Trial court framed charges against Respondent Nos.2-5 for abetment to commit suicide - Charges if rightly quashed by High Court: Held: No - High Court erred
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