AI Overview...
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Vague Provocation - Many sources highlight that allegations or statements regarding provocation are often vague, lacking specific details about the act or words that could have incited the accused or caused a person to commit an act like suicide or violence. For example, IND_HC_KLHC010062782008 emphasizes that the reason provided was too insufficient and vague to justify provocation leading to suicide 1.
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Insufficient Evidence of Provocation - Several references, such as INDTEL00000214228 and 01400005835, note that complaints or evidence do not establish clear acts or words that could constitute provocation. The complaints often contain vague statements or lack concrete evidence of provocative acts immediately preceding the incident 2, 8.
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Legal Standards for Provocation - The law requires that the provocation must be intentional, with the accused aware that their words or actions could provoke breach of peace or violence. Several sources (00500028548, 00800042274) stress that mere abuse or insult, especially if vague or unaccompanied by intent or knowledge, does not satisfy the legal criteria for provocation 5, 6.
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Impact of Vague or General Remarks - Relations, even between neighbors, can become strained, but such general or minor provocations are often deemed insufficient for legal action. For instance, 02100103011 dismisses vague complaints about unneighborly conduct as too ordinary to warrant attention from the perspective of public peace 4.
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Lack of Specific Provocative Acts in Court - In cases like 01400007136, courts have found that accusations of provocation are based on vague statements without concrete evidence of a specific act or words that directly caused the incident, such as assault or murder 7.
Analysis and Conclusion
Across multiple references, the common thread is that allegations of provocation are frequently vague, lacking specific details about the act, words, or circumstances that could legally constitute provocation. For provocation to be a valid defense or factor, there must be clear, intentional acts or words known to provoke a breach of peace, which is often absent in these cases. Consequently, vague or general claims of provocation are insufficient to establish legal culpability or justification for violence or suicide, emphasizing the importance of concrete evidence and precise allegations in such matters.
Search Results for "Provocation Vague"
2008 Supreme(Online)(KER) 48039 • India - High Court of Kerala
K.HEMA, J
Ratio Decidendi: Bail was justified as the allegations were vague, insufficient to suggest provocation for suicide, and no ... Any way, the reason stated is too insufficient and vague to drive a person to commit suicide, it is submitted. 4.
2025 Supreme(Online)(Tel) 15133 • India - IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA AT HYDERABAD
ANIL KUMAR JUKANTI, J
IPC reads as follows: “Whoever intentionally insults, and thereby gives provocation to any person, intending or knowing it to be likely that such provocation will cause him to break the public peace, or to commit any other offence, shall be punished with imprisonment ... Further, it should be within the knowledge of the accused that such provocation would breakdown the public peace or cause to commit any other offence. A reading of the complaint and the charge sheet do not fulfill any of the ingredients. ... Complaint is very va....
2024 7 Supreme 307 • India - Supreme Court
PAMIDIGHANTAM SRI NARASIMHA, PANKAJ MITHAL
– Rights and claims in suit are the very basis and provocation for filing criminal cases – Complaint/FIR is replete with just one ... Complainant has chosen not to involve her husband in criminal proceedings, particularly when all allegations relate to demand of dowry – Provocation ... for Complaint/FIR is essentially property dispute between father and son – Allegations are again vague, lacking in basic details ... The provocation for the Complaint/FIR is essentially the property dispute between father and son. 9.2 Furt....
2011 0 Supreme(Guj) 128 • India - Gujarat
P.P.BHATT
In order to appreciate whether the language used by the petitioner would amount to an insult of the type as would invoke provocation ... Therefore, it cannot be said that the language used by the petitioner would amount to an insult of the type as would invoke provocation ... [Para 8] ... Vague averment regarding use of abusive words or language ... knew that the provocation was likely to cause the complainant to either break public peace or commit any other offence. ... ... 3.4 It is respectfully submitted that the ing....
1981 0 Supreme(Mad) 234 • India - Madras
V.BALASUBRAHMANYAN
Relations even between enlightened neighbours have a tendency to become abrasive at times at the slightest provocation. ... I should therefore, dismiss the vague complaint levelled against the petitioner about unneighbourly conduct as too ordinary to be deserving of any particular attention, or special action, from the large point of view of the security of India or of public peace.
2010 0 Supreme(Gau) 908 • India - Gauhati
I.A.ANSARI, A.C.UPADHYAY
Apart from some vague statements given by some of the P Ws during their cross-examinations, there is no clear evidence about any act of P.W. 5 or her daughter baby Manti, which could have caused grave and sudden provocation to the accused persons, immediately before or within a short period before the ... At the examination of the accused Appellant under Section 313 Code of Criminal Procedure, nothing has been said about the alleged provocation made/caused by the injured, i.e., P.W. 5 or deceased victim i.e., baby Manti, just before the o....
2002 0 Supreme(SC) 2180 • India - Supreme Court
R.C.LAHOTI, BRIJESH KUMAR
There is a vague averment made in the complaint that Rajesh Kumar, petitioner No. 3, the father-in-law of the respondent used to assault and hurt the petitioner without any provocation, time and again during their marriage and a similar assault was made on 27.6.1997.
• India - Crimes
ASHWANI KUMAR SINGH
nbsp;Held: Mere abuse unaccompanied by an intention to cause breach of peace or knowledge that breach of peace is likely that such provocation ... has nowhere disclosed that the insulting words used by the accused had provoked him or that the accused intended or knew that the provocation ... A vague allegation that the accused abused the opposite party in filthy language would not be sufficient to attract the ingredients ... Intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace — Whoever intentionally insults, and thereby gives #H....
2016 0 Supreme(Pat) 517 • India - Patna
ASHWANI KUMAR SINGH
and informant has nowhere disclosed that insulting words used by accused had provoked him or that accused intended or knew that provocation ... Indian Penal Code, 1860–Section 504–Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973–Section 482–Intentional insult-Cognizance–A vague allegation ... Intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace — ... Whoever intentionally insults, and thereby gives provocation to any person, intending or knowing it to be likely that such provocation will cause him to break the public peace, or....
2009 0 Supreme(Gau) 664 • India - Gauhati
MAIBAM B.K.SINGH, C.R.SARMA
as per evidence before Court accused appellants assaulted said without any intention to cause his death but only as a result of provocation ... fact no witness was examined as a defence witness - At examination of accused persons none of them stated anything about alleged provocation ... C., none of them stated anything about the alleged provocation made/caused by the deceased just before the occurrence. ... Apart from some vague statements given by some of the PWs. during their cross-examinations, there is no clear evid....
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