Only Genuine Perceptions Revealed Before Death: Calcutta HC Declines To Quash Abetment Case Against Wife Implicated In Husband’s ‘Suicide Note’
Case: Balbina Tandon & Ors. v The State of West Bengal & Ors.
Coram: Justice Rai Chattopadhyay
Case No.: C.R.R 2798 of 2016
Court Observation: A person, immediately before his death would only let his genuine perceptions to reveal to the world after his death and so he writes. Though the [deceased] mentioned no other person [is] responsible for his death, at the same time he mentions that his wife or child should not be allowed to see his dead body. All these are triggering to the only fact that a cognizable case [has] been prima facie made out against the petitioners. [Thus] not enough ground is available for quashing the criminal case Lastly, he writes, that he does not commit suicide according to his own volition, but due to the pressure inflicted by his matrimonial family and that his wife, mother-in-law, father-in-law and other family members are responsible for the same. The ‘suicide note’ recovered, in this case, cannot be seen to be a simple declaration of self-condemnation of the said person. It also primarily reveals some other shades of emotions of the person, which cannot be undermined in any way.
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