Suicide abetment case: High Court notice to Delhi University college Principal

The Delhi High court today issued notices to the city police and the accused Principal of a Delhi University college on a plea seeking cancellation of the bail granted to him in a case of alleged abetment to suicide by a woman who was employed with the institution.

Justice Sudershan Kumar Misra sought a reply from G K Arora, Principal of Bhim Rao Ambedkar College of Delhi University, and fixed the plea of the deceased's husband for further hearing on February 5, 2015, the next date of hearing.

Advocate R K Anand, appearing for the victim's husband, sought cancellation of the bail by citing an earlier order of the lower court observing that it could not have granted the relief to the Principal had the entire facts of the case been before it.

The suicide note of the victim, which was given to the husband today, has categorically alleged that the Principal had forced her to commit suicide, the lawyer said.

In the suicide note, written on September 30 last year, she had alleged that the Principal and co-accused "tortured and forced" her to commit suicide as they wanted to establish physical relations with her.
In her dying declaration, she repeated her allegations.

The trial court, which granted regular bail to Arora last month, however, had denied the relief to co-accused Ravinder Singh who since now moved the High Court.

Earlier, the trial court had summoned Arora and Singh as accused in the case, while rejecting the closure report of the police.

It had said that there was sufficient prima facie material to proceed against them.

According to the FIR, the woman had on September 30, 2013, set herself on fire in front of Delhi Secretariat and later died in a hospital here.

The case was lodged against the two under section 306 (abetment of suicide) of the IPC.