Bare ActsIndian Penal Code, 1860 (IPC)

Section 301

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

The IPC 1860 was replaced by the BNS 2023 (in force 2024-07-01); no verified section mapping on file for Section 301 — confirm the corresponding provision (savings: Section 358, BNS 2023).

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.