Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023
BNS Section 102
Culpable homicide by causing death of person other than person whose death was intended
In one line
BNS Section 102 deals with culpable homicide by causing death of person other than person whose death was intended and replaces IPC 301.
Bare act text — BNS 102
102. Culpable homicide by causing death of person other than person whose death was intended.
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.
Frequently asked
What was BNS Section 102 in the IPC?
BNS Section 102 (Culpable homicide by causing death of person other than person whose death was intended) replaces Section 301 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860. IPC 301 is now BNS 102.
Still citing the IPC? Convert any old section in seconds, or keep the whole case — dates, clients and sections — in one diary.
Nearby BNS sections
- BNS 97 — Kidnapping or abducting child under ten years of age with intent to steal from its person
- BNS 98 — Selling child for purposes of prostitution, etc
- BNS 99 — Buying child for purposes of prostitution, etc
- BNS 100 — Culpable homicide
- BNS 101 — Murder
- BNS 103 — Punishment for murder
- BNS 104 — Punishment for murder by life-convict
- BNS 105 — Punishment for culpable homicide not amounting to murder
- BNS 106 — Causing death by negligence
- BNS 107 — Abetment of suicide of child or person of unsound mind