Siddhartha Reddy v. Gudipalli, 1998. The Court in the case of State C.B.I. (Ruled in February 2026 by the Supreme Court of India) (Judges: Justices Rajesh Bindal and Manmohan) considered the questions of liability based upon a suicide pact. It was a case of Homicide of actress Pratyusha after taking pesticide with her boyfriend, Siddhartha Reddy, who survived. All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Central Forensic Science Laboratory and Centre of DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics forensic reports showed that death was due to poisoning and that the death was not due to homicide. The Court did state that a suicide pact is a mutual abetment since each participant supports the other. The accused made the pesticide available and helped in the consumption of the said pesticide, which constituted intentional aid under the Indian Penal Code sections 107 and 306. Section 106 of the Indian Evidence Act also formed an adverse inference against the accused since the accused provided false responses in his Section 313 CrPC statement even concerning facts he was aware of. The Court condemned the autopsy surgeon heavily in connection to the publicity which publicly alleged rape and murder and found this unethical and harmful to the justice. The Supreme Court maintained the conviction on the basis of 306 and 309 IPC and ordered the accused to turn himself to serve out his sentence.