LawgistThe Indian Penal Code
305Abetment of suicide of child or insane person
If any person under eighteen years of age, any insane person, any delirious person, any idiot, or any person in a state of intoxication, commits suicide, whoever abets the commission of such suicide, shall be punished with death or 1 [imprisonment for life], or imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.
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1. Subs. by Act 26 of 1955, s. 117 and the Sch., for "transportation for life" (w.e.f. 1-1-1956).
Of offences affecting life
- 299 Culpable homicide
- 300 Murder
- 301 Culpable homicide by causing death of person other than person whose death was intended
- 302 Punishment for murder
- 303 Punishment for murder by life-convict
- 304 Punishment for culpable homicide not amounting to murder
- 304A Causing death by negligence
- 304B Dowry death
- 305 Abetment of suicide of child or insane person
- 306 Abetment of suicide
- 307 Attempt to murder
- 308 Attempt to commit culpable homicide
- 309 Attempt to commit suicide
- 310 Thug
- 311 Punishment
