Right of private defence
Offences affecting life
Causing miscarriage; injuries to unborn children; exposure of infants; and concealment of births
Hurt
Wrongful restraint and wrongful confinement
Criminal force and assault
Kidnapping, abduction, slavery and forced labour
Sexual offences
Theft
Extortion
Robbery and gang-robbery
Criminal misappropriation of property
Criminal breach of trust
Receiving stolen property
Cheating
Fraudulent deeds and dispositions of property
Mischief
Criminal trespass
Currency notes and bank notes
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Culpable homicide |
299. Whoever causes death by doing an act with the intention of causing death, or with the intention of causing such bodily injury as is likely to cause death, or with the knowledge that he is likely by such act to cause death, commits the offence of culpable homicide.
[Indian PC 1860, s. 299] |
Murder |
300. Except in the cases hereinafter excepted culpable homicide is murder —
[Indian PC 1860, s. 300] |
Culpable homicide by causing the death of a person other than the person whose death was intended |
301. 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. [Indian PC 1860, s. 301] |
Punishment for murder |
Punishment for culpable homicide not amounting to murder |
*304. Whoever commits culpable homicide not amounting to murder shall —
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* There is no section 303. |
Causing death by rash or negligent act |
304A. Whoever causes the death of any person by doing any rash or negligent act not amounting to culpable homicide, shall be punished —
[Indian PC 1860, s. 304A] |
Abetment of suicide of child or insane person |
305. If any person under 18 years of age, any insane person, any delirious person, any idiot, or any person in a state of intoxication, commits suicide, whoever abets the commission of such suicide shall be punished with death or imprisonment for life, or with imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years, and shall also be liable to fine. [Indian PC 1860, s. 305] |
Abetment of suicide |
306. If any person commits suicide, whoever abets the commission of such suicide shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 10 years, and shall also be liable to fine. [Indian PC 1860, s. 306] |
Attempt to murder |
307.—(1) Whoever does any act with such intention or knowledge and under such circumstances that if he by that act caused death he would be guilty of murder, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 15 years, and shall also be liable to fine; and if hurt is caused to any person by such act, the offender shall be liable either to imprisonment for life, or to imprisonment for a term which may extend to 20 years, and shall also be liable to caning or fine or both.
[51/2007]
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Attempt to commit culpable homicide |
308. Whoever does any act with such intention or knowledge and under such circumstances that if he by that act caused death he would be guilty of culpable homicide not amounting to murder, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 7 years, or with fine, or with both; and if hurt is caused to any person by such act, the offender shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 15 years, or with fine, or with caning, or with any combination of such punishments.
[Indian PC 1860, s. 308] |
Attempt to commit suicide |
309. Whoever attempts to commit suicide, and does any act towards the commission of such offence, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine, or with both. [Indian PC 1860, s. 309] |
Infanticide |
310. When any woman by any wilful act or omission causes the death of her child being a child under the age of 12 months, but at the time of the act or omission the balance of her mind was disturbed by reason of her not having fully recovered from the effect of giving birth to the child or by reason of the effect of lactation consequent upon the birth of the child, she shall, notwithstanding that the circumstances were such that but for this section the offence would have amounted to murder, be guilty of the offence of infanticide. |
Punishment for infanticide |
311. Whoever commits the offence of infanticide shall be punished at the discretion of the court with imprisonment for life, or with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 10 years, and shall also be liable to fine. |