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2017 Supreme(AP) 569

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT HYDERABAD FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA AND THE STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH
B. Siva Sankara Rao, J.
BARAPATI SRILEKHA - Appellant
Vs.
RAMACHANDRA REDDY PATOLLA - Respondent
Criminal Petition No. 16081 of 2016
Decided On : 05-09-2017

Advocates Appeared:
For the Petitioner:Mr. T. Pradyumna Kumar Reddy, Advocate.
For the Respondent: Public Prosecutor (TG)

Headnote:

Indian Penal Code, 1860 - Section 306 – Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 – Section 174 – Abatement of Suicide – Deceased produced some fake appointment letter, joining letter, pay slip and salary break up and employment certificate and uploaded to the U.S. Consulate for visa and on verification by the U.S.Consulate said particulars furnished by the deceased are forged and unable to bear the humiliation the deceased committed suicide – Held, question as to what is the cause of a suicide has no easy answers because suicidal ideation and behaviours in human beings are complex and multifaceted. Different individuals in the same situation react and behave differently because of the personal meaning they add to each event, thus accounting for individual vulnerability to suicide. Each individuals suicidability pattern depends on his inner subjective experience of mental pain, fear and loss of self-respect. Each of these factors are crucial and exacerbating contributor to an individuals vulnerability to end his own life, which may either be an attempt for self-protection or an escapism from intolerable self. This is the principle of law scanning the same referring to the several expressions ultimately laid down by the latest three Judge Bench expression of the Apex Court in Pawan Kumar (supra). But for that stray sentence of she having knowledge from his messaging to her about his going to commit suicide and not informing to any other person, there is no other material including from taken the entire prosecution case on face value of she discontinued the longstanding love affair with him on knowing that he was involved in the criminal case for the offence of forgery and cheating in Cr. No.600 of 2015 of Madhapur P.S. that no way attracts the offence. In view of the above discussion and the expressions, this Court found nothing to continue proceedings in the crime supra against the petitioner - Criminal Petition is allowed

ORDER :

B. Siva Sankara Rao, J.

The petitioner is the accused of Cr.No.1365 of 2015 of Rajendranagar Police Station registered originally under section 174CrPC on 22.12.2015 and later altered the Section of law for the offence punishable under Section 306 of I.P.C., on the report of the 1st respondent-defacto complainant and after investigation, the police on filing charge-sheet, the learned VIII Metropolitan Magistrate, Cyberabad at Upperpally, Rajendra Nagar, Ranga Reddy district, taken cognisance for the offence under Section 306 I.P.C. and numbered as PRC No.36 of 2016 to commit the case to the Court of Sessions.

2. The petitioner impugning the proceedings in said P.R.C.No.36 of 2016, filed this Criminal Petition with the contentions in the grounds of petition that her relative-deceased Dasaratha Reddy, loved her while she was a student but on the advice of the elders she concentrated on her studies and got selected in a campus by the reputed company. The deceased went to London and returned to India in 2014 as he could not stay there any further. On a complaint given by one Rambabu, HR, Meridian School, a case in Cr.No.600 of 2015 of Madhapur(Guttala) Police Station was registered against the deceased shown as A.3 and two others for offences punishable under section 420,468 and 471 r/w 34 IPC and the deceased was arrested on 17.10.2015 and subsequently was released on bail and the police filed a charge-sheet against them on 06.11.2015 and numbered as C.C.No.1380 of 2015 pending on the file of the XXV Metropolitan Magistrate, Kukatpally at Miyapur, Cyberabad on the allegation that the deceased produced some fake appointment letter, joining letter, pay slip and salary break up and employment certificate and uploaded to the U.S. Consulate for visa and on verification by the U.S.Consulate said particulars furnished by the deceased are forged and unable to bear the humiliation the deceased committed suicide on 21.11.2015 having consumed Monocrotophas at Himayath Sagar and uploaded the video of his consuming poison through Whats App including to the petitioner's phone number.

3. From the above, the petitioner submits that to attract Section 306 I.P.C., there should be instigation or aiding the deceased to commit suicide but none of the ingredients are there in the charge sheet or the 161 CrPC statements shows that the petitioner has aided the deceased to commit suicide. The petitioner is aged about 23 years and she completed her B.Tech. In fact, the deceased also made an attempt to hack the e-mail of the petitioner and also tried to send an e-mail to the employer of the petitioner and the petitioner informed her employer that she created a new mail ID and asked them not to consider and respond to her old mail ID. The petitioner further submits that her future will be ruined if the proceedings are allowed to continue against her. She also submits the expression of the Apex Court in Gangula Mohan Reddy v. State of Andhra Pradesh, (2010) Crl.LJ 2110 SC in which it is held that abetment involves a mental process of instigating a person or intentionally aiding a person in doing of a thing and without a positive act on the part of the accused to instigate or aid in coming suicide, conviction cannot be sustained. The petitioner also relied on other expression in Madam Mohan Singh v. State of Gujarat, 2010 (8) SCC 628 in which it is held that unless there is specific allegation and material of definite nature, it would be hazardous to ask the accused to face the trial and a criminal trial is not exactly a pleasant experience. She further submits that continuation of the proceedings in PRC No.36 of 2016 is nothing but clear abuse of process of law and the same is liable to be quashed.

4. The complaint of the defacto-complainant reads that on 21.11.2015 at about 1800 hours cousin of the complainant deceased Dasharath Reddy previously went to London for the employment purpose and later his visa was cancelled and he remained jobless. In spite o








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