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Mere demand for loan repayment doesn't amount to abetment of suicide: Bombay High Court
June 04, 2026 5:42 pm
The Bombay High Court held that a bank official pursuing a defaulter in the course of duty to recover loans doesn’t constitute abetment, which it said requires an intentional act meant to drive someone to suicide.
Bengaluru police constable’s wife dies by suicide, dowry harassment case filed
May 24, 2026 10:00 am
Investigators suspect an argument between the couple on the day of the incident may have triggered the suicide.
Called a good-for-nothing, Bihar student at Bengaluru academy dies by suicide
May 21, 2026 2:35 am
Father Munna Kumar said that Chunnu’s friends told him he was upset after being humiliated in front of the class for failing in some subjects
‘No additional custody warranted’: Mumbai court grants bail to insurance agent held in MDS student suicide case
April 21, 2026 1:07 pm
The Master of Dental Surgery student was found dead in her Antop Hill home on March 6. The accused had sought bail, saying there is no evidence that he had done any immediate act to have driven her to die by suicide.
‘Victim is alive, where is suicide?’: Karnataka HC orders release of man jailed for ‘abetting’ wife’s death
April 20, 2026 2:01 pm
The accused was in jail for the last 6 months over an abetment to suicide charge.
Police trainee found dead at training centre, girlfriend’s parents booked for abetment
March 17, 2026 8:23 pm
According to police, the note states that Vhavle had been in a relationship with a woman from a neighbouring district for over a year and a half.
Punjab and Haryana High Court acquits stepmother in teen’s death, says ‘go and die’ remark not abetment
March 07, 2026 2:05 pm
Conviction in 2003 case set aside after 22 years; Punjab and Haryana High Court finds no proof that girl’s death was suicide, or that stepmother instigated it.
If husband feels harassed by wife and kills himself, isn’t that abetment of suicide? Karnataka HC asks in Atul Subhash case
March 04, 2026 1:25 pm
Bengaluru techie Atul Subhash allegedly died by suicide on December 9, 2024, leaving behind a video accusing his wife and in-laws of harassing him by filing false matrimonial cases.
Surat textile businessman’s son-in-law dies by suicide with family; friend booked
February 25, 2026 5:20 pm
The textile businessman found his daughter, her husband, and their daughters lying unconscious.
Can a man be held liable for abetting wife’s death over suspicions about her character? Uttarakhand High Court weighs in
February 20, 2026 1:23 pm
The absence of any death note implicating the appellant husband assumes significance in the present case, where the evidence is otherwise general in nature, the Uttarakhand High Court observed.
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