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Attempting suicide will no longer be a crime: Home Ministry

India Blooms News Service | | Dec 10, 2014, at 10:53 pm

New Delhi, Dec 10 (IBNS): In a landmark move, the Central Government has decided that attempt to commit suicide will no longer be considered as crime with the Home Ministry informing the Parliament that Section 309 (attempt to Commit suicide) of IPC be decriminalised.

"The Law Commission of India, in its 210th Report, had recommended that Section 309 (attempt to Commit suicide) of IPC needs to be effacted from the statute book. As law and order is the 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," Minister of State for Home Affairs Haribhai Parathibhai Chaudhary informed the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday.

Keeping in view the responses from the States/UTs, the government has decided to delete Section 309 of IPC from the Statute book, the Ministry said.

The details regarding attempt to commit suicide are not maintained, the statement said.

Earlier, a person who survived a suicide attempt was punished with a one-year jail term and a fine under Section 309 of the Indian Penal Code.

A bill to clear the change has to be passed in the Rajya Sabha before it can become law.

The change came following a recommendation from the Law Commission.

The Law Commission in its recommendation had said that section 309 needs to be effaced from the statute book because the provision is inhuman, irrespective of whether it is constitutional or unconstitutional.

#Attempting suicide will no longer be a crime: Home Ministry

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