{"id":5628,"date":"2022-12-25T05:32:33","date_gmt":"2022-12-25T00:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=5628"},"modified":"2025-03-27T09:58:44","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T04:28:44","slug":"what-is-abetment-of-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-abetment-of-suicide\/","title":{"rendered":"What is \u2018Abetment of Suicide\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>What is abetment of suicide?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>The Indian Penal Code, 1860 makes abetment of suicide a punishable offence.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Section 306 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) <\/strong>prescribes either a jail term of up to 10 years or a fine or both.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cIf any person commits suicide, whoever abets the commission of such suicide shall be punished with imprisonment of either imprisonment for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine,\u201d Section 306 reads. Generally, the fine is paid to the kin of the deceased.<\/li>\n<li>The IPC also has a separate chapter on abetment and describes who is an abettor under <strong>Section 108.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Abetment is defined as including instigating, engaging in a conspiracy or assisting in committing the offence.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>How serious is the offence of abetment?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Abetment of suicide<\/strong> is a serious offence that is tried in a Sessions court and is cognizable, non-bailable and non-compoundable.<\/li>\n<li>A <strong>cognizable offence<\/strong> is one in which a police officer can make an arrest without a warrant from a court.<\/li>\n<li><strong>A non-bailable offence<\/strong> means bail is granted to the accused at the discretion of the court and not as a matter of right.<\/li>\n<li><strong>A non-compoundable offence<\/strong> is one in which the case cannot be withdrawn by the complainant even when the complainant and the accused have reached a compromise.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Is abetment of suicide the same as murder?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>No, it is not<strong> same as murder<\/strong>. The Supreme Court clarified this issue in <strong>1997 in the case of \u2018Sangarabonia Sreenu v State of Andhra Pradesh\u2019.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Despite the intention of the accused to drive a person to commit suicide, abetment of suicide is not the same as murder.<\/li>\n<li>In the case of a murder, the final \u2018act\u2019 of causing the death of a person is committed by the accused, which is not the case in abetment of suicide.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the difference between the bailable and non-bailable offence?<\/h3>\n<p>In the case of a <a href=\"https:\/\/lawrato.com\/indian-kanoon\/criminal-law\/how-to-get-bail-in-india-bail-procedure-1792\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">bailable offence<\/a>, the grant of bail is a matter of right. It may be either given by a police officer who is having custody of the Accused or by the court. However, A non-bailable offence is one in which the grant of Bail is not a matter of right. Here the Accused will have to apply to the court, and it will be the discretion of the court to grant Bail or not.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/tunisha-sharmas-co-star-booked-what-is-abetment-of-suicide-under-the-law-8343541\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tunisha Sharma\u2019s co-star booked: What is \u2018abetment of suicide\u2019 under the law<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abetment of suicide is a serious offence of instigating, engaging in conspiracy or forcing to commit suicide<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5629,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5628","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}