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Section 306 IPC — Abetment of suicide

Indian Penal Code, 1860 · Official PDF page 125

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306. Abetment of suicide.--If any person commits suicide, whoever abets the commission of such suicide, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.

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