IPC Section 305
Abetment of suicide of child / insane person
BNS Section 107— Abetment of suicide of child or person of unsound mind
Effective for any FIR, charge sheet, or filing on or after 1 July 2024. Matters that arose before that date continue under the IPC.
Creates a specific and more severely punished offence of abetting suicide where the person who commits suicide is a child, a person of unsound mind, a delirious person, or a person in a state of intoxication — categories considered incapable of giving meaningful consent or exercising independent judgment.
- Punishment
- Death, or imprisonment for life, or imprisonment up to 10 years, and fine.
- Triable by
- Sessions Court
- Cognizable
- Yes
- Bailable
- No
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