Gandhinagar court sentences businessman to 5 yrs in jail for abetting 25-year-old IT engineer's suicide
According to the case details, the 25-year-old, who worked with
Tata Consultancy Services
(TCS) for three years, was found dead on Nov 5, 2021. She hanged herself from a ceiling fan in her house in Gandhinagar. Her father complained that his daughter had a side business of import-export in partnership with Rutvik Thaker.
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The complaint further stated that the girl was doing business with the 38-year-old for three years, and they used to meet often. The family received a call from Thaker, apprehending a drastic step by the deceased girl. He alleged that Thaker came to the house and went away with the deceased's mobile phone. The family suspected that he wanted to delete relevant information from the phone.
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Thaker was put on trial, and he defended himself by maintaining that the charges against him were false and he was implicated merely on the basis of suspicion. After the trial, principal sessions judge H I Bhatt found Thaker guilty under IPC Sections 306 (abetment to suicide) and 404 (dishonest misappropriation of property possessed by a deceased person at the time of her death). Besides the jail term, the court imposed a fine of Rs 25,000 on him.
In its order, the court stated, "Considering the submissions made by both sides, the accused trapped the young girl from a family of economically modest background in his friendship and made her promises which could not be fulfilled. Even the girl might have realised this fact and she chose to end her life, and this proves an act of abetment on his part."
The court was not satisfied with the way the investigator handled things immediately after the suicide. It recommended appropriate action to be taken by the Gandhinagar superintendent of police against the investigator, head constable Sunilkumar Kalidas.
Besides, the court also ordered compensation for the deceased's family. It said, "The parents lost the support of their young and earning daughter by her untimely death. In such circumstances, it appears just and proper to award compensation to the witnesses and therefore it is recommended that the District Legal Services Authority, Gandhinagar, pay compensation to them."
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