Siddaramaiah, Yeddyurappa’s phone calls are being tapped: R Ashok
Bengaluru, November 23: Telephones of former chief minister Siddaramaiah, opposition leader BS Yeddyurappa, some journalists and other leaders were being tapped, BJP leader R Ashok alleged.
Speaking to a television channel here on Friday, Ashok said that with a rumour that some Congress leaders might try to topple the coalition government, the government has been tapping the telephones. But the tapping of telephones of political leaders was not a new to the state. Then chief minister Ramakrishna Hegde had resigned from the CM post following telephone tapping allegation, he recalled.
The government should conduct proper investigation into the allegation of telephone tapping of some important leaders to know the truth. But the state government has been trying to cover up the issue, he alleged.
“I don’t know much about telephone tapping. But I would hear disturbance while speaking to phone. So, the government should conduct proper investigation”.
- Jagadish Shettar, Former Chief Minister
The Congress-JDS coalition government in the state is based on disbelief. So, it has been tapping the phones of major leaders including opposition leaders. This is not right. A probe should be conducted about it.
- CT Ravi, BJP Leader
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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.
