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PETALING JAYA: Several groups have renewed their call for Section 309 of the Penal Code, which makes attempted suicide a crime, to be repealed as well as charges against those who have survived suicide attempts be dropped.
They also asked that an immediate moratorium be imposed against the move to punish suicide survivors under the law.
Datuk Dr Venugopal Balchand, who is decriminalisation focus group chairman of the National Coalition of Mental Wellbeing (NCMW) initiated by Rotary Malaysia, said an urgent repeal is timely as suicide rates have “skyrocketed” amid the pandemic.
“It is not an issue of crime; victims should not be hauled up to the police or remanded. They should be sent to a medical institution.