Punishment for culpable homicide not amounting to murder
Chapter 6: Offences affecting the human body
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 the act by which the death is caused is done with the intention of causing death, or of causing such bodily injury as is likely to cause death; or with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years and with fine, if the act is done with the knowledge that it is likely to cause death, but without any intention to cause death, or to cause such bodily injury as is likely to cause death.
The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (Act No. 45 of 2023). As printed in the Gazette on 25 December 2023. Later amendments, if any, are not included.
Related sections
- 102Culpable homicide by causing death of person other than person whose death was intendedIPC 301
- 103Punishment for murderIPC 302
- 104Punishment for murder by life-convictIPC 303
- 106Causing death by negligenceIPC 304A
- 107Abetment of suicide of child or person of unsound mindIPC 305
- 108Abetment of suicideIPC 306