2025 INSC 86 REPORTABLE IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPEAL NO. 706 OF 2017 LAXMI DAS ...APPELLANT(S)

VERSUS THE STATE OF WEST BENGAL & ORS. ...RESPONDENT(S)

O R D E R

SATISH CHANDRA SHARMA, J.

1. This appeal is preferred by the accused Appellant-Smt. Laxmi Das challenging the impugned order dated 13.06.2014 passed by the High Court at Calcutta in Criminal Revisional Application, being CRR No. 1560 of 2012, along with an application for quashing, being CRAN No. 1946 of 2013. By this order, the High Court has quashed the chargesheet as only against Dilip Das/Accused No. 3 and Subrata Das/Accused No. 2, while rejecting the application preferred by the Appellant/Accused Signature Not Verified D Ri Ag Dita Hll Ay Ssi Hgn Ae Rd M b Ay No. 4. Date: 2025.01.21 Reason:

2. The facts germane to the present dispute are summarised as below:

2.1 Appellant is the mother of Babu Das/Accused No.

1, who was allegedly in a love affair with the deceased, Souma Pal. Dilip Das and Subrata Das are the father and elder brother of Babu Das respectively (hereinafter collectively “the accused”). All four were initially accused of abetment of suicide and charged under Secti