Renjini Rajagopalan

Renjini Rajagopalan is a human rights lawyer and a public policy analyst who works with a Member of Parliament from India.

The need to decriminalise attempted suicide in India

India needs to go through with eliminating section 309 of its penal code, punishing attempted suicide, as announced by the government at the end of 2014. The criminalisation of suicide is often used to suppress peaceful hunger strikes.

By Renjini Rajagopalan

/ 8 Feb 2015