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I see a lot of posts here which state that jagya did not abet suicide because he did not actually hand her the weapon which she slit her wrists with, and he did not tell her that she is worthless, she shouldn't live etc. (i.e. verbal abuse).
But there is a distinction between ' instigation' to suicide and 'inspiring' someone to suicide.
While instigating is a direct aggressive form of abuse that pushes someone to commit suicide,
"Inspiration" is creating so much emotional distress that a person is forced to commit or attempt suicide.
I believe that Jagya is definitely guilty of inspiring saanchi to try to commit suicide -- breaking off the engagement after the wedding cards have gone out -- and then marrying ganga three days later.
While technically there is no set time when an engagement can be broken off, and also no legal time period wherein one has to wait to get engaged/married after breaking off previous engagement and marriage -- the legal system does base its interpretation on "good faith intentions".
I personally disagree with Jagya's approach 200% even though saanchi has been a complete ass.
I do not believe that he entered into this engagement with good faith, nor do I believe he dissolved it in good faith, and he was already in love with ganga while in the relationship with saanchi -- whether he married her with intentions to marry her or under duress from sumitra's behaviour is irrelevant. He was emotionally involved with ganga right from the beginning. And he knew even when shiv asked him, and even when ira asked him, that he was not happy with the rishta and he still continued. He knows that really well, its his conscience here that will tell him. The realization that saanchi was not a good fit for him did not come like a ton of bricks falling on his head when he overheard her talking to her friends at the restaurant.
And therefore, his bad faith moves may indeed make him an accomplice to suicide through "inspiring" her to commit suicide even though he did not formally "instigate" it.
Two years ago, there was a case where a woman committed suicide after murdering her two children and left behind a note that she was doing it because of her husband's neglect. He was an alcoholic. Now the key is that he would just come home drunk every day and lie in a corner somewhere in a drunken stupor. He was never abusive to his wife or kids, but he just wasn't present in the way a husband should be, and his money was all going to alcohol. The wife saw a bleak future for her and the kids and decided that she couldn't continue living like this. The court awarded him seven years imprisonment under section 306 for neglect of his wife and "inspiring" her to commit suicide.
Now we can argue, "what did he do?" ... but the key take-away for this is to realize that we are all living in an interconnected society, and we have obligations and responsibility for the energy we bring into people's lives. We have to take care of these.
The question is not whether the engagement should have been broken or not ... the question is did he break it in good faith or break it in bad faith? And this is where the court will have to decide.
In itself, till he broke the engagement with saanchi off, there was no way the court could have convicted him ... because that his right and choice... and the court cannot mandate that someone should be married to someone else. Yet what weakens Jagya's case is that he married ganga three days immediately thereafter. It definitely shows that there was something between Jagya and ganga WHILE THE ENGAGEMENT WITH SAANCHI WAS STILL ON. While he married ganga after breaking the engagement with saanchi, it is evident that there was a love affair of sorts (private in both hearts or explicit in public is irrelevant). And this is where it can legitimately be argued that Jagya acted in bad faith. And consequently is an abettor to her suicide attempt.
