Supreme Court of India

Prabhat Kumar Mishra @ Prabhat Mishra v. The State of U.P. & Anr.

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Reported as [2024] 3 S.C.R. 157
Bench B.R. Gavai and Sandeep Mehta JJ.
Decided 5 March 2024

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What the Court ordered

We are of the opinion that there do not exist any justifiable ground so as to permit the prosecution of the appellant for the offences under Section 306 IPC and Section 3(2)(v) of the SC/ST Act.

Judgment, page 17

From the headnote

Issue for Consideration High Court, if justified in rejecting the application filed by the accused appellant u/s. 482 CrPC seeking quashing of proceeding of the criminal case registered against him u/s. 306 IPC and s. 3(2)(v) of the Schedule Castes and the Schedule Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989. Headnotes Penal Code, 1860 – ss. 306, 107 – Abetment of suicide – Allegations set out in the suicide note, if constitutes necessary ingredients of abetment to commit suicide – Suicide note by the victim-posted as Senior Clerk, that he was frustrated and bothered by the style of

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