Supreme Court of India
Vinod Shivakumar v. The State of Maharashtra
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What the Court ordered
Accordingly, the appeal is allowed and the impugned judgment and order of the High Court of Judicature at Bombay, Nagpur Bench, Nagpur passed on 24.09.2025 in Criminal Revision Application No. 24 of 2025 and the order of the Additional Sessions Judge, Achalpur dated 24.10.2024 in Sessions Case No. 52 of 2021 are set aside. The Appellant is discharged from Sessions Case No. 52 of 2021. The bail bonds, if any, shall stand cancelled.
Judgment, 28
In brief
A Forest Range Officer shot herself with her official weapon on 25.03.2021, leaving three suicide notes — addressed to the Additional PCCF Mr. Reddy, her mother and her husband — naming the appellant, her Deputy Conservator of Forests, as solely responsible. The notes alleged that he issued notices and charge-sheets, abused her before staff and villagers, ordered her to remove an encroachment on 17.03.2020 leading to an SC/ST Act FIR against her, refused to forward her leave and stopped her pay, and that trekking forced on her caused a miscarriage in October 2020.…
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