If a person dies by suicide due to ‘love failure’, the partner cannot be held accountable for abetting it, says High Court

Delhi High Court rules person cannot be blamed for abetting suicide due to love failure, grants bail. Contact helplines for support.

The Delhi High Court has observed that a person cannot be held accountable for abetting the suicide of a partner who ends life due to “love failure”.

“For the wrong decision taken by a man of weak or frail mentality, another person cannot be blamed as having abetted his committing suicide,” Justice Amit Mahajan remarked, while granting pre-arrest bail to two persons.

“If a lover commits suicide due to love failure, if a student commits suicide because of his poor performance in the examination, a client commits suicide because his case is dismissed, the lady, examiner, lawyer respectively cannot be held to have abetted the commission of suicide,” the judge added.

The court’s order on Tuesday (April 16) came while granting anticipatory bail to two persons, a woman and her male friend, who are facing charges of allegedly instigating the man to commit suicide in 2023.

The father of the deceased had filed a complaint with the police. The complaint stated that the woman was in a romantic relationship with the deceased but had told him that she was marrying her friend.

A suicide note was found in which the deceased had said that he was committing suicide because of the woman and the friend.

Relying on WhatsApp chats, the High Court said that it appeared that the deceased had constantly threatened that he would commit suicide whenever the woman refused to talk to him.