IPC 301 — Culpable homicide by causing death of person other than person whose death was intended

Indian Penal Code, 1860

Statutory text

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 he likely to cause.

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