Casual remarks are not abetment of suicide: HC
Thiruvananthapuram, Jan. 31 -- The Kerala high court has ruled that casual remarks such as "go away and die" often employed during a quarrel between two people do not amount to abetment of suicide. The bench of justice C Pratheep Kumar made the observations while examining a criminal revision petition filed by a 30-year-old man who faced charges including abetment to suicide.
In this case, the petitioner was in a relationship with a married woman. When the woman came to know that he was planning to marry another woman, she inquired with him, resulting in a verbal quarrel. During the argument, he allegedly told her to "go away and die'. The woman and her five-year-old daughter subsequently died by suicide in 2023.
The man had filed the petit...
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