The Nagpur Bench of the Bombay High Court dismissed the FIR lodged against an employee of the lending company, saying that seeking back the loan is not an abetment to suicide.
The court said if someone does not repay the loan by taking it and the employee of the company repeatedly asks him to pay the debt, then it cannot be called abetment to suicide, because that employee is just doing his job.
A bench of justices Vinay Deshpande and Justice Anil Kilor said, the petitioner Rohit Nalwade was just doing his duty. Rohit was booked under Section 306 for abetting the loan holder Pramod Chauhan for suicide. Pramod had taken a loan from Rohit's company and was not repaying it.
Pramod later committed suicide and in a suicide note, Rohit was blamed for it. The bench said in its order, it is clear from the evidence that the petitioners were only doing their work. Therefore, it cannot be said in any circumstances that the petitioner deliberately incited the deceased to suicide.