Scolding Employee To Maintain Office Discipline Does Not Amount To Abetment Of Suicide U/S 306 IPC
Case: Sanjay Kanakmal Agarwal VS The State Of Gujarat
Coram: Justice Nirzar Desai
Case No.: R/CR.MA/19305/2020
Court Observation: “When an employee is scolded just with a view to maintain office discipline and out of fear or being hypersensitive, if an employee commits suicide, that would not constitute an offence attracting provisions of Section 306 of Indian Penal Code as the action taken by the employer was in good faith to maintain office discipline.”
“If an employer on finding the employee breaching the discipline of office, asks the employee that legal action would be taken against concerned employee and if after few days, the concerned employee commits suicide, it cannot be said that the threat to take legal action was given with a criminal intent to instigate the employee to commit suicide.”
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Keywords
Scolding Employee, Abetment Of Suicide
