Supreme Court of India

Amalendu Pal @ Jhantu v. State of West Bengal

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Reported as [2009] 15 S.C.R. 836

Bench Dr. Mukundakam Sharma and R.M. Lodha JJ.

Decided 11 November 2009

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What the Court ordered

In view of the aforesaid situation and position, we have examined the provision of clause thirdly which provides that a G person would be held to have abetted the doing of a thing when he intentionally does or omits to do anything in order to aid the commission of that thing.

Judgment, page 11

From the headnote

Penal Code, 1860: s. 306 - Applicability of - Held: For applicability of s. 306, there must be a case of suicide and in the commission of suicide, person said to have abetted it must have played active role by an act of instigation or by doing certain act to facilitate the commission of suicide - On facts, appellant brought another woman to his house - Allegations of mental and physical torture on deceased-wife - After about three months. o of second marriage by the appellant, deceased committed suicide - Conviction of appellant by courts below under s.306 not maintainable as from the period

Authorities it was built on

2002 Girdhar Shankar Tawade v. State of Maharashtra cited by 6

Where later benches applied it

2025 Geeta v. The State of Karnataka relied on
2025 Abhinav Mohan Delkar v. The State of Maharashtra & Ors. relied on
2024 Kamaruddin Dastagir Sanadi v. State of Karnataka through Sho Kakati Police relied on
2024 Rohini Sudarshan Gangurde v. The State of Maharashtra & Anr. relied on
2024 Kumar @ Shiva Kumar v. State of Karnataka relied on
2023 Kamalakar v. State of Karnataka relied on
2021 Mahendra K C v. The State of Karnataka & Anr. relied on
2021 Kanchan Sharma v. State of Uttar Pradesh & Anr. relied on
2021 Velladurai v. State Represented by the Inspector of Police relied on
2020 Arnab Manoranjan Goswami v. The State of Maharashtra & Ors. relied on
2020 Gurcharan Singh v. The State of Punjab relied on
2019 Ude Singh & Ors. v. State of Haryana relied on
2025 Shenbagavalli and Ors. v. The Inspector of Police, Kancheepuram District and Anr. referred to
2025 Ayyub & Ors. v. State of Uttar Pradesh & Anr. referred to
2025 Mahendra Awase v. The State of Madhya Pradesh referred to
2024 Jayedeepsinh Pravinsinh Chavda & Ors. v. State of Gujarat referred to
2015 State of Kerala and Others v. S. Unnikrishnan Nair and Others referred to
2025 Patel Babubhai Manohardas & Ors. v. State of Gujarat mentioned
2017 Pawan Kumar v. State of H.P. mentioned
2016 Gurcharan Singh v. State of Punjab mentioned

Of those, 12 relied on · 5 referred to · 3 mentioned

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