Previously Section 305 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC)
Changes: ‘Mental illness’ used for ‘Insane person’
If any person under eighteen years of age, any person with mental illness, any delirious person or any person in a state of intoxication, commits suicide, whoever abets the commission of such suicide, shall be punished with death or imprisonment for life, or imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.
Classification of Offence as per Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS)
- Punishment:
- Death, or imprisonment for life, or imprisonment for 10 years and fine.
- Cognizable
- Non-Bailable
- Triable by Court of Session.