Stating this in reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday, minister of state for home Haribhai Parathibhai Chaudhary said the government had decided to drop Section 309 from the IPC after 18 states and 4 Union territories backed the recommendation of the Law Commission of India in this regard.
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"Law Commission of India, in its 210th Report, had recommended that Section 309 (attempt to commit suicide) of IPC needs to be effaced from the statute book. As law and order is a 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. Keeping in view the responses from the states/UTs, it has been decided to delete Section 309 of IPC from the statute book," the MoS stated in the reply.
Welcoming the decision, BJP MP from Bihar and former Union home secretary RK Singh on Wednesday said it was "the right step taken by the government".
"People with suicidal tendencies deserve counselling, not legal action," he told mediapersons outside Parliament.
According to Section 309 of the IPC, "whoever attempts to commit suicide and does any act towards commission of such offence, shall be punished for a term which may extend to one year of with fine, or with both".
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The first indication of the government's intention to delete Section 309 of the IPC had come in August this year. In reply to a Parliament question on August 5, minister of state for home Kiren Rijiju had indicated that the government was working on implementing the recommendation of the Law Commission to decriminalise attempt to suicide. "The Ministry of Home Affairs is in the process of effacing section 309 of the Indian Penal Code, as recommended by the Law Commission in its 210th Report along -- with amendment of certain other sections of the Code of Criminal Procedure/Indian Penal Code in consultation with all the stakeholders," he had stated.
However, now that the consultations with the states and UTs have found a majority of them favouring the recommendation, the Centre has decided to bring a Bill to amend the IPC.
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