CHAPTER 06 (OF OFFENCES AFFECTING THE HUMAN BODY)

(1) Whoever causes the death of any person by doing any rash or negligent act not amounting to culpable homicide, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine. (2) Whoever causes death of any person by doing any rash […]

Previously Section 304 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) Whoever commits culpable homicide not amounting to murder, shall be punished with imprisonment for life, or imprisonment of either description for a term which shall not be less than five years but which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine, if

Previously Section 303 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) Whoever, being under sentence of imprisonment for life, commits murder, shall be punished with death or with imprisonment for life, which shall mean the remainder of that person’s natural life. Classification of Offence as per Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS)

Previously Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) (1) Whoever commits murder shall be punished with death or imprisonment for life, and shall also be liable to fine. (2) When a group of five or more persons acting in concert commits murder on the ground of race, caste or community, sex, place of birth,

Previously Section 301 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) 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

Previously Section 300 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) Except in the cases hereinafter excepted, culpable homicide is murder,–– (a) if the act by which the death is caused is done with the intention of causing death; or (b) if the act by which the death is caused is done with the intention of causing

Previously Section 299 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) Whoever causes death by doing an act with the intention of causing death, or with the intention of causing such bodily injury as is likely to cause death, or with the knowledge that he is likely by such act to cause death, commits the offence of