Punishment for culpable homicide not amounting to murder
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Summary
When a person causes another's death by culpable homicide that is not murder, punishment depends on their mental state. If the act was done with intention to cause death or such bodily injury as is likely to cause death, the punishment is life imprisonment or up to ten years and fine. If the act was done with knowledge that death was likely but without intent, the punishment is up to ten years, or fine, or both.
Example
Priya drives her delivery truck recklessly through a crowded lane, knowing a crash could kill someone but without intending to kill. A pedestrian dies. Under this section she can be punished with imprisonment up to ten years, or fine, or both, because she acted with knowledge that death was likely but without intent.
Bare Act
Enacted textWhoever commits culpable homicide not amounting to murder shall be punished with imprisonment for life, or imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine, if the act by which the death is caused is done with the intention of causing death. or of causing such bodily injury as is likely to cause death;
or with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, or with fine, or with both, if the act is done with the knowledge that it is likely to cause death, but without any intention to cause death, or to cause such bodily injury as is likely to cause death.
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