Indian Penal Code
IPC 301 is now BNS 102.
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