BNS 66 — Punishment for causing death or resulting in persistent vegetative state of victim.

Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023

Statutory text

66. Whoever, commits an offence punishable under sub-section (1)
or  sub-section  (2)  of  section  64  and  in  the course  of  such  commission
inflicts an injury which causes the death of the woman or causes the woman
to  be  in  a  persistent  vegetative  state,  shall  be  punished  with  rigorous

imprisonment  for  a  term  which  shall  not  be  less  than  twenty  years,  but
which may extend to imprisonment for life, which shall mean imprisonment
for the remainder of that person’s natural life, or with death.
Sexual intercourse by husband upon his wife during separation.

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