The government of India has
decided to scrap the section 309 of the Indian Penal Code. Doing this will decriminalize
any attempt to commit suicide. The law says that any attempt to take one's own
life is punishable with fine, or one year's rigorous imprisonment, or both.
The Indian government has taken
this decision after 18 state governments and 4 union territories backed the
recommendations of the Law commission of India; minister of state for home
Haribhai Parathibhai Chaudhary informed the Rajya Sabha yesterday. Government
sources say that a note regarding this amendment to the IPC has been sent to
the relevant ministries namely Home, Law, and Health.
"Law Commission of India, in
its 210th Report, had recommended that Section 309 (attempt to commit suicide)
of IPC needs to be effaced from the statute book. As law and order is a state
subject, views of States/UTs were requested on the recommendations of the Law
Commission. 18 states and 4 Union territory administrations have supported that
Section 309 of the IPC may be deleted. Keeping in view the responses from the
states/UTs, it has been decided to delete Section 309 of IPC from the statute
book," said the MoS, answering a question.
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