ASHISH SAXENA Vs. STATE OF MP

JUDGEMENT

(1.) AS per prosecution on 30.1.1996 dead body of Anoop Saxena was found near Railway line. A suicidal note was also seen near the dead body which reads as follows : -

(2.) ON comparison the suicidal note was found to be in hand writing of the deceased. Saraswati Prakash Saxena, the father, Manoj Saxena, the brother of the deceased had claimed that deceased had committed suicide as he was harrassed by the petitioner who had compelled him to drink and to smoke cigarette. Kirti Saxena a young girl of age 17 has claimed that the deceased had endorsed his feelings in a greeting card for Deepawali which was destroyed by her. Hukum Chand Singh. Abhishek Nigam, Anand Jamulkar also claim that Ashish Saxena used to harrass the deceased as he is the cousin of Kirti Saxena. Smt. Alka Saxena, mother of Kirti Saxena has claimed that deceased had apologized to her and the letter to Kirti Saxena was torn off.

(3.) HERE in this case, deceased liked the cousin of the petitioner. He had written someting on a greeting card which was not liked by the girl and her mother. However, the deceased apologized and the matter had subsided there. Anyhow, as per prosecution allegation, the petitioner used to tease or harrass the deceased. As per suicidal note, the deceased was frustrated in his liking. He had plucked in first year and had adopted a bad company indulging in drinking and smoking. According to suicidal note, petitioner was held responsible for such bad company. However, there has been no allegation that the petitioner had ever instigated, engaged, intentionally committed or so conspired that the deceased could commit suicide. Of course, no suggestion to commit suicide was given by the petitioner as was the case in Swami Prahladdas v. State of M.P. (supra). Obviously case of Mahendra Singh v. State of M.P. (supra) was much stronger than the present one. That was a case of suicide by a wife being harrassed by the behaviour of her husband. So was. the case of Ramesh Kumar v. State of Chhattisgarh (supra) where the wife had a quarrel with her husband and the husband in a fit of anger or emotion had suggested that the wife should die. May be, the behaviour of the petitioner could give cause or motive for committing suicide, yet, no abetment was prima facie established.