To attract the provision of abetment of suicide, there must be allegation that the accused had instigated the deceased to commit suicide, the Bombay High Court has held.

A division bench of Justices Ranjit More and V L Achiliya quashed a case registered against Kishor Shinde, Assistant Engineer with Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Ltd (MSEDC), for allegedly abetting the suicide of a junior technician Dilip Magar.