Whether higher officer can be held guilty for abetment of suicide if he taking extra work from employee after office hours?

 In the context of aforesaid legal positions, this court is of

the view that alleged act of mis-behaviour and taking extra work
after the office hours from the deceased cannot be equated into
abetting the deceased to commit suicide. If any higher officer
compels his sub-ordinate to do extra work which is unbearable,
then he has other options and it cannot be said that he had no
other option except to commit suicide. Under these
circumstances, the appellant cannot be held responsible for
abetting the deceased to commit suicide.
High Court of Madhya Pradesh: Bench at Indore
Single Bench: Hon'ble Shri Justice S.K. Awasthi
Cr.A. No.4509/2018

Satendra Jha vs. State of Madhya Pradesh & Ors.

(Passed on 06/03/2019)

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