Culpable homicide by causing death of person other than person whose death was intended
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Summary
When a person does something intending, or knowing it is likely, to cause death, but the act kills someone other than the person he intended or foresaw, the culpable homicide is treated the same as if his intended victim had died. The legal classification and consequences (for example murder or culpable homicide of a particular degree) do not change because the actual victim was different.
Example
Arjun shoots at Karan intending to kill him, but the bullet instead kills Rohan. Even though Rohan was not the intended victim, Arjun's culpable homicide is treated the same as if he had killed Karan, so he faces the same legal classification and penalties.
Bare Act
Enacted textIf 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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