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Article 21 and Attempt to Suicide: From Gian Kaur to Mental Healthcare Act
The erstwhile Section 309 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) carried the colonial legacy of criminalizing attempt to suicide in India. However, as our socio-legal jurisprudence progressed and embraced a more humanized outlook, an attempt to suicide came to be recognized not as a crime, but as a mental health crisis requiring medical intervention…