Suicide Flashcards
Aiding and abetting suicide; section and liability
s179
Everyone is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 14 years who-
(a) incites, counsels, or procures any person to commit suicide
(b)aids or abets any person in the commision of a suicide
Suicide pact section and liability
s180 CA
Everyone who in pursuance of a suicide pact kills any other person is guilty of manslaughter and not murder
where two or more persons enter a suicide pact, and in pursuance of it one or more of them kills himself, any survivor is guilty f being a party to a death and liable to a term not exceedign 5 years
Suicide Pact Definition
a common agreement
between 2 or more persons
having for its object the death of all of them,
whether or not each is to take his own life