BNS 102 — Culpable homicide by causing death of person other than person whose death was intended.

Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023

Statutory text

102. 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.

Punishment for murder.

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