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IPC Section 301 - Culpable homicide by causing death of person other than pe rson whose death was
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Simple language explanation
IPC Section 301 deals with culpable homicide by causing death of person other than pe rson whose death was.
Full official legal text
301. Culpable homicide by causing death of person other than pe rson 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 t o 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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