Abstract

The attempt to suicide is dealt with section 309 of the Indian Penal code. The legislators of India, though didn’t delete section 309, passed the mental health care act 2017, thus limiting the scope of section 309 up to a great extent. The development of the law on the attempt to suicide of India begins with its inclusion as a crime punishable with imprisonment and through it being declared a human right included in the right to life and further it being declared as not a part of the same and finally it being in its contemporary position with the mental health act 2017 as well as section 309 coexisting.