Indian Penal Code : Culpable homicide by causing death of person other than person whosedeath was

Indian Penal Code,1860

Act No : 45

Section : Culpable homicide by causing death of person other than person whosedeath was intended.

301. Culpable homicide by causing death of person other thanperson whose death was intended.--If a person, by doing anything whichhe intends or knows to be likely to cause death, commits culpablehomicide by causing the death of any person, whose death he neitherintends nor knows himself to be likely to cause, the culpable homicidecommitted by the offender is of the description of which it would havebeen if he had caused the death of the person whose death he intendedor knew himself to he likely to cause.