April,13,2017: Supreme Court: State stands on position of a loco parentis to citizens and when there are so many deaths of the farmers in State of Tamil Nadu, it becomes obligatory on part of State to express the concern and ...
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Physical and Mental Abuse for recovery of Loan repayment is abetment to Suicide: Bombay HC
April,3,2017: Repeated demand for return of money amounts to “instigation and provocation” to commit suicide. Rejecting discharge of pleas of two moneylenders, Bombay High Court stated that continuous verbal and physical abuse and repeated demand for return of the money amounts ...
Read More »‘Is Abetment to attempt Suicide an Offence’ by Rakesh Kumar Singh
'Abetment to attempt Suicide' by Rakesh Kumar Singh
Read More »SC: Husband’s Extramarital Affair cannot be a ground to record his Conviction for Abetment of Wife’s Suicide, Read Order
November,25,2016: SC: Extramarital affair may be illegal or immoral, but it does not necessitate the conviction of a husband for cruelty to his wife. On Thursday, Supreme Court expounded that a person could not be convicted for subjecting his wife ...
Read More »SC responds emotively to Letter of Friend of Law Student who committed suicide, takes cognizance
September,6,2016: Senior Advocate and Jurist F.S. Nariman is appointed as amicus curiae to assist the Court. On Monday, Supreme Court has taken suo motu cognisance of the letter written which has been written by a friend of the Amity law student ...
Read More »Supreme Court intervenes to save ‘Santhara’ after Rajasthan High Court banned it
August,31,2015: The Supreme Court on Monday stayed the order passed by Rajasthan High Court declaring Santhara as illegal. The High Court, in a judgment on August 10, 2015, declared the practice, which involves voluntary fast-unto-death, illegal and an offence punishable ...
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