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Section 305 IPC — Abetment of suicide of child or insane person

Indian Penal Code, 1860 · Official PDF page 125

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305. Abetment 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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