Supreme Court · 2010 INSC 506 · Decided 12 August 2010
S.S. Chheena v. Vijay Kumar Mahajan & Another
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2010 INSC 506 · [2010] 9 S.C.R. 1111
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1503/2010
- Decided
- 12 August 2010
- Bench
- DALVEER BHANDARI, K.S. RADHAKRISHNAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 306, 309, 107
Headnote
A B Penal Code, 1860 - s. 306 - Abetment of suicide - Essential ingredients - Dispute between two students over C theft of mobile - Suicide by complainant's son - Complaint filed against Enquiry Officer of the university alleging abetment of suicide - Trial court framing charge u/s. 306 - Upheld by High Court - On appeal, held: There should be a clear mens rea to commit the offence D - It also requires an active act or a direct act which led the deceased to commit suicide seeing no option and that act · must have been intended to push deceased into such a position that he
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