• Request Shariat Appellate Bench of the Supreme Court to set aside the judgement declaring decriminalisation of suicide attempts repugnant to Islamic injunctions • Argue neither Holy Quran, Sunnah of Holy Prophet (pbuh), nor juristic consensus mandates criminal punishment for the act ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Psychiatric Society (PPS) on Tuesday approached the Shariat Appellate Bench of the Supreme Court, challenging the Federal Shariat Court’s (FSC) May 18 judgement declaring the government’s decriminalisation of suicide attempts repugnant to the injunctions of Islam. The FSC had also struck down the Criminal Laws (Amendment) Act, 2022, to the extent that it omitted Section 325 of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC), and declared the removal of the offence from the PPC repugnant to the injunctions of Islam. Filed under Article 203-F(2B) of the Constitution, the appeal, submitted by Advocate Barrister Muhammad Mumtaz Ali on behalf of the PPS, requested the SC Shariat Appellate Bench to set aside the FSC judgement.