Threats of falsely implicating a person in a case of rape and eve-teasing, when the threatening was to the extent of demeaning and destroying his self esteem would amount to abetment of suicide, Madhya Pradesh High Court has said.
In a judgment dated May 7, 2024, Justice G.S. Ahluwalia refused to quash the criminal proceedings under IPC Section 306 (abetment of suicide) against Shivani Nishad and her mother Rani Nishad, residents of Balaghat in Madhya Pradesh. A case of abetment of suicide had been filed against them after Pawan Ahuja, also from Balaghat and a government job aspirant, had killed himself in December, 2022.
The two women had moved the High Court in 2023 seeking quashing of criminal proceedings against them.
