BJP is jealous of coalition government pro-people programmes: Kumaraswamy
‘I won’t talk to media’
Bengaluru, November 22: Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy said that as BJP is jealous about the pro-people programmes like farm loan waiver, Badavara Bandhu and others of the coalition government, the BJP has been finding faults of his every work.
Launching the Badavara Bandhu programme here on Thursday, the Chief Minister said that the BJP people have been finding faults in every work of the coalition government and his every statement. The coalition government was ready to work for the welfare of the poor including the farmers due to which, it has announced the waiver of Rs 45,000 cr farm loans. In order to implement it effectively, the government has been talking to the nationalized banks and accumulating the resources. Even then, the BJP leaders have been misleading the people, he alleged. The farmers and the sugar factory owners have made agreements with each other for purchasing the sugarcane. But as per the agreement, the factory owners have not paid the farmers. So the problem was raised now. Without informing him the reason, they have been burning his effigy. What was the use of protest without bringing to his notice? Was it right, he asked.
“There is no need to learn from BS Yeddyurappa and other BJP leaders. People of the state are well aware of the fact that what happened during BJP administration. I am not escaping from anything. I would give answers to all BJP questions in the next Assembly Session”, he said.
‘I won’t speak to media’
“Media find mistake in my every act and speech. Whatever I speak, media misinterprets it. Even the small protest is being blown out of proportion against the state government. So, I have decided not to speak before the media in future. I would prefer to speak in only public programmes”.
- HD Kumaraswamy, Chief Minister
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Broken relationships don't automatically amount to abetment of suicide: SC
New Delhi (PTI): Broken relationships, while emotionally distressing, do not automatically amount to abetment of suicide in the absence of intention leading to the criminal offence, the Supreme Court on Friday said.
The observations came from a bench of Justices Pankaj Mithal and Ujjal Bhuyan in a judgement, which overturned the conviction of one Kamaruddin Dastagir Sanadi by the Karnataka High Court for the offences of cheating and abetment of suicide under the IPC.
"This is a case of a broken relationship, not criminal conduct," the judgment said.
Sanadi was initially charged under Sections 417 (cheating), 306 (abetment of suicide), and 376 (rape) of the IPC.
While the trial court acquitted him of all the charges, the Karnataka High Court, on the state's appeal, convicted him of cheating and abetment of suicide, sentencing him to five years imprisonment and imposing Rs 25,000 in fine.
According to the FIR registered at the mother's instance, her 21-year-old daughter was in love with the accused for the past eight years and died by suicide in August, 2007, after he refused to keep his promise to marry.
Writing a 17-page judgement, Justice Mithal analysed the two dying declarations of the woman and noted that neither was there any allegation of a physical relationship between the couple nor there was any intentional act leading to the suicide.
The judgement therefore underlined broken relationships were emotionally distressing, but did not automatically amount to criminal offences.
"Even in cases where the victim dies by suicide, which may be as a result of cruelty meted out to her, the courts have always held that discord and differences in domestic life are quite common in society and that the commission of such an offence largely depends upon the mental state of the victim," said the apex court.
The court further said, "Surely, until and unless some guilty intention on the part of the accused is established, it is ordinarily not possible to convict him for an offence under Section 306 IPC.”
The judgement said there was no evidence to suggest that the man instigated or provoked the woman to die by suicide and underscored a mere refusal to marry, even after a long relationship, did not constitute abetment.
