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Culpable Homicide

Definition

BNS Section 100. The genus offence; murder under Section 101 is the species when one of four enumerated conditions is met.

Related terms

BNS 2023
Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita 2023, Act 45 of 2023. India's substantive criminal code with effect from 1 July 2024. Contains 358 sections in...
BNSS 2023
Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita 2023, the statute that replaced the Code of Criminal Procedure. It introduced a mandatory forensic-scene-visit requirement for offences...
BSA 2023
Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam 2023: the Indian evidence statute that replaced the Indian Evidence Act 1872 on 1 July 2024; retains the section...
Inchoate Offences
Offences punished even though the principal harm did not occur: abetment (Sec 45-50), criminal conspiracy (Sec 61), attempt (Sec 62).
Organised Crime
A structured group of three or more persons that operates continuously, with the aim of committing serious offences for material benefit, and...

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