Chapter XVI — Of Offences Affecting The Human Body

Section 305 — Abetment of suicide of child or insane person

Indian Penal Code, 1860 · Free to read

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 [imprisonment for life], or imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.