VEER PAL vs STATE N.C.T. OF DELHI

* IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Date of reserving Judgment: 8th January, 2026 Date of decision: 16th March, 2026 IN THE MATTER OF: CRL.A. 73/2003 VEER PAL .....Appellant Through: Ms. Aashaa Tiwari, Adv. alongwith Mr. Puneet Narula, Adv. versus STATE N.C.T. OF DELHI .....Respondent Through: Ms. Kiran Bairwa, APP for State with SI Preeti, PS SP Badli. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE VIMAL KUMAR YADAV JUDGMENT VIMAL KUMAR YADAV, J. 1. Humans rather all living beings immensely value and cling to the life in such a manner that nothing else is more important. Humans and animals behave, more or less, alike when existence itself is in jeopardy. All out effort is put in to survive, so much so that survival instinct triggers “fight or flight mode”. And if driven to the wall, then even a deer turns back and resist, if not attack, on a predator, from whom the deer invariably tries to escape. 2. The life which is so precious would be taken away by one‟s own self and commit suicide. Suicide seems to be civilized world‟s problem as in the Tribal societies it was kind of unheard. However, it has entered in the Tribal societies with the entry of civilized world. Strength of the Tribal or so ca