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CHAPTER VI OF OFFENCES AFFECTING THE HUMAN BODY · Of offences affecting life

Section 107: Abetment of suicide of child or person of unsound mind

The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023

If any child, any person of unsound mind, any delirious person or any person in a state of intoxication, commits suicide, whoever abets the commission of such suicide, shall be punished with death or imprisonment for life, or imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.

Corresponding IPC provision

As given in the correspondence table of the National Crime Records Bureau (Ministry of Home Affairs). Read both texts before relying on it. NCRB table

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