Words said in anger can’t be abetment to suicide: HC

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Bhopal/Jabalpur:18.03.2021 

A singlejudge bench of Madhya Pradesh high court has ruled that words spoken in anger can’t be treated as abetment to suicide and ordered dismissal of a case against a woman. The petitioner, Kamrunisha, had challenged a case registered against her under IPC 306 (abetment to suicide) after the person with whom she had an alleged extra-marital affair killed himself.

According to police, she was forcing her paramour to marry her. On January 17, 2020, she went to stay with him in his house and allegedly threatened to lodge an FIR against him and his family if he refused to marry her. She left after his family members intervened, but went back to his house on January 26 that year and allegedly repeated the threat. The man killed himself on January 28, 2020, and police registered an FIR against her. Kamrunisha moved high court. The man committed suicide because of his circumstances and not because of her, the judge said, while ordering dismissal of the case against her pending in district court.