Ankola: Bhatkal student killed in road accident while on his way to SSLC exams
Ankola: A SSLC student of Bhatkal who was on his way to write SSLC board examinations died on the spot in a road mishap in Shirur near Gokarna in Ankola here on Thursday morning.
The deceased has been identified as Shammas Goltey (19), a resident of Bhatkal.
According to the sources, Shammas along with his other friends was on his way to Karwar to write SSLC board examination when the accident took place.
According to the eye-witnesses the accident took place when the driver of the car lost control over the wheels and went off the road and overturned causing severe head injuries to Shammas, who succumbed to his injuries on the spot.
Two others have also been reported injured in the accident. The injured have been identified as Ahmed Iyad and Ismail Barmawar. They have been admitted to a local hospital for treatment. While other two on the car escaped unhurt.
Sources also added that Shammas was a Aalim and Hafiz-e-Quran, and was a private candidate writing SSLC examination and his examination centre was in Karwar.
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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.
