" "In that case the allegation was that there was sustained cruelty extending over a period of three years interspersed with exhortation to the victim to end her life." His Lordship further observed and held that the evidence of cruelty was one continuous chain, several links of which were touched up by the exhortations to die. "Thus evidence 106 of cruelty, ill treatment and exhortation to end her life adduced in the case must be held admissible, together with the statement of Nilima (who committed suicide) in that regard which related to the circumstances terminating in suicide." Similarly, in Onkar vs State of Madhya Pradesh while following the decision of the Privy Council in Pakala Narayana Swami 's case (supra), the Madhya Pradesh High Court has explained the nature of the circumstances contemplated by section 32 of the Evidence Act thus: "The circumstances must have some proximate relation to the Actual occurrence and they can only include the acts done when and where the death was caused.