The relevant provision of the new act states: The Indian Penal Code was replace by Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), which came into effect on July 1, 2024.
[4][5] In the 1996 Gian Kaur vs State of Punjab,[6] the appellant failed to convince the five judge bench that section 309 violated article 21 of the Constitution of India.
[8] On 10 December 2014, in response to a question by Vivek Gupta in the Rajya Sabha on decriminalisation of suicide, the Minister of State for Home Affairs, Haribhai Chaudhary replied that "it has been decided to delete Section 309 of IPC from the Statute book.
[10] Section 309 of the Indian Penal Code was set to be limited in effect by the Mental Health Care bill,[11] first introduced to the Rajya Sabha on 19 August 2013.
In response, the Ministry proposed amendments which would change the language of this provision to one concerning the "presumption of severe stress in case of attempt to commit suicide".