Historical frameworkIPC
Section 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.
Official footnote
1. Subs. by Act 26 of 1955, s. 117 and the Sch., for "transportation for life" (w.e.f. 1-1-1956).