Karnataka High Court declines to quash abetment case versus associates of LGBT worker who ended life apparently due to harassment

Observing that the valuable life of a 35-year-old male, who came from the LGBT neighborhood, was lost owing to remarks of his sexual preference, the High Court of Karnataka declined to quash, at this early phase of the probe, a criminal case signed up versus 3 of his coworkers for supposed abetment of suicide. Justice M. Nagaprasanna passed the order while declining petitions submitted by Deputy General Manager (Marketing) Malathy S.B., Vice-President (Human Resources) Kumar Suraj, and Manager (Marketing) Nitish Kumar, at Lifestyle International Private Limited, Bengaluru. The departed, Vivek Raj, was a Manager (Visual Merchandise) in Lifestyle International. He had actually ended his life in his house in Bengaluru on June 3 after lodging a grievance versus the petitioners implicating them of bugging him at the work environment since he comes from the Dalit neighborhood. At the time of signing up the case, cops reserved the accused-petitioners under arrangements of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989. The High Court had actually remained even more procedures on this case. After the death of Vivek Raj, cops signed up another FIR based upon a grievance lodged by his dad. In the 2nd FIR, the accused-petitioners were scheduled under Section 306 (abetment of suicide) of the Indian Penal Code. At this moment, the accused-petitioners submitted a petition looking for a remain on the inv
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