The Supreme Court recently declared a new rule, according to which, a senior cannot be held responsible for the suicide of his or her employee. If the employee commits suicide due to excessive workload, his senior cannot be held responsible for his actions since assigning work to someone is not harassment and the senior cannot be considered a criminal.

The court also rejected the arguments filed by the Aurangabad bench of the Bombay.

The case came into light when a man named, Kishor Parashar who worked in Aurangabad for the deputy director of education in Maharashtra government, killed himself in August 2017.

Kishore's wife filed a complaint against her husband’s boss for forcing him to suicide. She said that the senior officer assigned too much work to her husband, under whose pressure, he committed suicide.

The High Court on January 23, rejected her request to quash the FIR. The High Court affirmed, “The facts indicate that there was no direct abetment and the applicants cannot have any intention that the deceased should commit suicide. Even when the accused persons have no such intention, if they create a situation causing mental tension so as to drive the person to commit suicide, they can be said to be instigating the accused to commit suicide.”

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