Overview
- Dismissed appeals by Gudipalli Siddhartha Reddy and by Pratyusha’s mother, with the court directing Reddy to surrender within four weeks.
- The bench affirmed a two-year jail term for abetment to suicide, rejecting the defence of accidental poisoning.
- Judges ruled out murder and rape, finding overwhelming ocular and medical evidence that Pratyusha died from organophosphate poisoning identified as Nuvacron.
- The court held that mutual participation in a suicide pact can constitute abetment under Sections 107 and 306 of the IPC.
- The judgment criticised postmortem doctor B. Muni Swamy for an unprofessional and prematurely publicised strangulation claim that distorted public perception.