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Abetment of Suicide & Instigation | Sections 45, 108 B.N.S. | Ramesh Kumar Case (2001)
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Constitutional Law II Case compilation
57 Landmark Constitutional Cases: Complete Notes
About this topic ▶ Watch this part of the lecture (0:00) These notes cover the 57 most important cases of Indian Constitutional Law . They are the cases that keep coming up in LL.B. examinations, in judiciary examinations and in every serious discussion of constitutional law. Every case is studied…
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B.N.S.
Abetment
When a crime is reported, the first question is: who did it? A good lawyer asks a second question: who made it happen? The person caught with the stolen goods is often only the last link in a chain. Behind that person, someone may have planted the idea, someone may have shaken hands on the plan, an…
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Case laws
Common Cause
Supreme Court of India · 2018
In Common Cause v. Union of India (2018), a five-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court unanimously held that the right to die with dignity is part of the right to life under Article 21. It made passive euthanasia legal subject to safeguards, kept active euthanasia illegal, and recognised the living will (advance medical directive) as legally enforceable. It matters because it carried Article 21 from the narrow approach of A. K. Gopalan all the way to dignity at the end of life.
Constitutional Law II
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- 1 In Madan Mohan Singh v. State of Gujarat, the Supreme Court quashed an F.I.R. that accused a senior B.S.N.L. officer of abetting his driver's suicide. Which reasoning, as described in the lecture, did the Court use?
- 2 In Ramesh Kumar v. State of Chhattisgarh, the husband may have told his wife, perhaps in anger, that she was free to go wherever she liked and do whatever she wished, and she later committed suicide. What did the Supreme...
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