Supreme Court of India

S.S. Chheena v. Vijay Kumar Mahajan & Another

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Reported as [2010] 9 S.C.R. 1111

Bench Dalveer Bhandari and K.S. Panicker Radhakrishnan JJ.

Decided 12 August 2010

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From the headnote

Penal Code, 1860 - s. 306 - Abetment of suicide - Essential ingredients - Dispute between two students over 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 against Enquiry Officer - Upheld by High Court - On appeal, held: There should be a clear mens rea to commit the offence - 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

Where later benches applied it

2025 Abhinav Mohan Delkar v. The State of Maharashtra & Ors. relied on
2024 Rohini Sudarshan Gangurde v. The State of Maharashtra & Anr. relied on
2021 Geo Varghese v. The State of Rajasthan & Anr. relied on
2021 Kanchan Sharma v. State of Uttar Pradesh & Anr. 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
2016 Gurcharan Singh v. State of Punjab relied on
2025 Shenbagavalli and Ors. v. The Inspector of Police, Kancheepuram District and Anr. referred to
2024 Prakash and Others v. The State of Maharashtra and Another referred to
2024 Jayedeepsinh Pravinsinh Chavda & Ors. v. State of Gujarat referred to
2022 V. P. Singh Etc v. The State of Punjab & Ors. referred to
2022 Daxaben v. The State of Gujarat & Ors. referred to

Of those, 8 relied on · 5 referred to

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