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Historical Event on 4/27/1994

Supreme Court strikes down section 309 of the Indian Penal Code(which makes suicide a punishable offence)- violative of Article 21.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/27/1994Khidr Khan Syed, Governor of Lahore, replaced Daulat Khan Lodi on Delhi's throne.
10/30/1963Pasumpon Muthuramalingam Thevar, nationalist, freedom fighter and social worker, died at Madurai.
9/25/195414 Members of Parliament (MP) form a new party called the Union of Socialist Progress. Acharya Kripalani is the leader.
4/23/1795East India Company gave Warren Hastings a grant of the money and he was honourably acquitted of the charges.
10/27/1982Gandhiji's personal secretary Pyare Lal died.
7/27/1982Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi first visited the US in almost 11 years.
4/11/1984Soyuz T-11 returns to Earth which carried 3 cosmonauts including the first Indian Sqn. Ldr. Rakesh Sharma, to Salyut 7.
11/6/1946P. S. Shivswami Iyyer, great politician and administrator, passed away.
8/14/1862Bombay High Court was established for Maharashtra, Goa, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu territory. This court has benches at Nagpur, Panaji and Aurangabad.
3/26/1992Rs. 245 crore relief in customs, excise duties announced.