BNS 105 — Punishment for culpable homicide not amounting to murder.

Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023

Statutory text

105. 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.
Causing death by negligence.

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