# The Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 301: Culpable homicide by causing death of person other than person whose death was intended

- Act: The Indian Penal Code, 1860 (Act 45 of 1860)
- In force from: 1862-01-01
- Ministry: Ministry of Home Affairs
- Source URL: https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/ipc/section/301/

## Text

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 he likely to cause.

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