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.
CHAPTER XVI OF OFFENCES AFFECTING THE HUMAN BODY · Of offences affecting life
Section 301: Culpable homicide by causing death of person other than person whose death was intended
The Indian Penal Code, 1860 (repealed)
Repealed by the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (45 of 2023) with effect from 1 July 2024.
Now in the BNS
As given in the correspondence table of the National Crime Records Bureau (Ministry of Home Affairs). Read both texts before relying on it. NCRB table
| 301. Culpable homicide by causing death of person other than person whose death was intended. | BNS 102 |
Questions on this section
1 question in 5 of our papers cite Section 301. Try these from the free papers:
1. A, intending to kill B, fires a gun at B. The bullet misses B and kills C, whose presence A neither knew of nor expected. Which of the following is correct?