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THE INDIAN PENAL CODE · OF OFFENCESAFFECTINGTHE HUMAN BODY — Of offences affecting life

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.