The exercise of examining the content of a suicide note and seeing if the facts actually confirm its claims was also carried out by the Delhi High Court in June 2020 in the case of Reena vs NCT Delhi State. A man took his own life and in his suicide note claimed that this was due to harassment by his wife.
However, the superior court determined that there was no instigation, sting, incitement or encouragement of the deceased to take his life, and therefore ordered that the charges against the accused be dropped.
The Supreme Court also warned that it is necessary to analyze if the person who died by suicide was ‘hypersensitive’ and if another person in similar circumstances would have taken the same type of action, although it is true that this specific term is normally used in connection with matrimonial cases .
At AR Madhav Rao In this case, the Punjab and Haryana High Court said such an exercise should apply in other circumstances as well, although it used uncharitable and insensitive language in doing so.
In essence, he said that it should be seen if a person takes their own life due to a problem with their mental state, others cannot be blamed for their actions, which opens the possibility that an examination of the state of Avnay and Kumud Naik before his will also be necessary to perform kills in the case of Goswami.
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