Nachhatar Singh and Another V/s State of Punjab

Information Type: Judicial Information
Court: Supreme Court
Date of Judgment(s): 2011-02-03
Case No: 808 OF 2005
Case Type: Appeal (Criminal)
Judge Name: Harjit Singh Bedi & C.K. Prasad
Subject: Criminal Law -Abetment of Suicide
Statutes / Acts: Indian Penal Code 1860 (IPC), Code of Criminal Procedure 1973
Section: s.306
Bench Strength: Double Bench
State of Appellant(s): Punjab
History of Case No: From the JudgmentAND Order dated 16.09.2004 of the High Court of Punjab AND Haryana at Chandigarh in Criminal Appeal No. 88-SB of 1991.
Case Note / Description :

Court found that the wilful conduct referred to above should be of such a nature as would provoke a person of common prudence to commit suicide and a difference of opinion within a family on everyday mundane matters would not fall within that category. We find that merely because the appellants were of the opinion that the deceased, as a good daughter-in-law, should look after them in old age could not be said to an abetment of suicide. The presumption against the appellants raised under Section 113A of the Evidence Act, 1872 cannot thus be drawn. We are, therefore, of the opinion that the High Court's judgment suffers from serious contradictions. We, accordingly, allow this appeal and set aside the conviction of the appellants before us. Their bail bonds be discharged.

 
 
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