IPC 315 — Act done with intent to prevent child being born alive or to cause it to die after birth

Indian Penal Code, 1860

Statutory text

Whoever  before the birth of any child does any  act with the intention of thereby preventing that child from being born  alive or  causing it  to die  after its birth, and does by such

Causing death  of quick  unborn child  by act  amounting  to  culpable homicide.

Back to IPC