After considering the case, Justice Mahajan observed that the WhatsApp chats placed on record showed that the deceased was a person of sensitive nature, who constantly threatened that he would die by suicide whenever the woman refused to talk to him.
“It is correct that the deceased had written the name of the applicants in suicide note, but, in the opinion of this Court, there is nothing mentioned, as to the nature of threats in the alleged suicide note written by deceased of such an alarming proportion so as to drive a ‘normal person’ to contemplate suicide,” the Court noted.
It further said that the allegation that the accused teased the deceased over the failure of his romantic relationship with the woman did not appear to be the kind of instigation that would amount to abetment of suicide in terms of Section 306 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
The Court proceeded to grant anticipatory bail to both the accused.
Source: Barandbench
