BNS Section 107 — Abetment of suicide of child or person of unsound mind

Summary

If a child, a person of unsound mind, a delirious person, or a person in a state of intoxication commits suicide, then anyone who abets the commission of that suicide will be punished with death, or imprisonment for life, or imprisonment for a term up to ten years, and will also be liable to a fine.

Official Text

If any child, any person of unsound mind, 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.

Related Judgments

• SC (2025) Vol.3 p.1309 — Supreme Court of India (2025)
• SC (2025) Vol.2 p.80 — Supreme Court of India (2025)
• SC (2025) Vol.8 p.966 — Supreme Court of India (2025)
• SC (2025) Vol.11 p.291 — Supreme Court of India (2025)
• SC (2025) Vol.3 p.1531 — Supreme Court of India (2025)
• SC (2024) Vol.8 p.670 — Supreme Court of India (2024)
• SC (2025) Vol.6 p.280 — Supreme Court of India (2025)
• S.S. CHHEENA v. VIJAY KUMAR MAHAJAN & ANOTHER — Supreme Court of India (2010)

Old <-> New Code Mapping

• IPC §305 — Abetment of suicide of child or person of unsound mind