Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 · Section 102

BNS 102: earlier IPC 301

Section 102 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 replaces Section 301 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860. BNS 102 deals with culpable homicide by causing death of person other than person whose death was intended. The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita came into force on 1 July 2024. Both texts are set out below, side by side, with the changed words marked.

Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita

BNS 102 was IPC 301.

Culpable homicide by causing death of person other than person whose death was intended.

Carried over
Old wording kept in full
Old · IPC 1860 · Ch. XVI
s. 301
Culpable homicide by causing death of person other than person whose death was intended
If a person, by doing anything which he intends or knows to be likely to cause death, commits culpable homicide by causing the death of any person, whose death he neither intends nor knows himself to be likely to cause, the culpable homicide committed by the offender is of the description of which it would have been if he had caused the death of the person whose death he intended or knew himself to he likely to cause.
Text from the official India Code PDF
New · BNS 2023 · Ch. VI
s. 102
Culpable homicide by causing death of person other than person whose death was intended.
If a person, by doing anything which he intends or knows to be likely to cause death, commits culpable homicide by causing the death of any person, whose death he neither intends nor knows himself to be likely to cause, the culpable homicide committed by the offender is of the description of which it would have been if he had caused the death of the person whose death he intended or knew himself to be likely to cause.
Text from India Code

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