Difference Between Culpable Homicide and Murder Under Indian Penal Code

Difference Between Culpable Homicide and Murder Under Indian Penal Code

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN

 Culpable homicide Section 299

 A person commits culpable homicide of the act by which the death is caused is done.

 [a] With the intention of causing death.

 [b] With the intention of causing such bodily injury as is likely to cause death.

 [c] With the knowledge that he is likely by such act to cause death.

 Murder section 300

 Subject to certain exceptions culpable homicide is murder.

 [1] With the intention of causing death

 [2] With the intention of causing such bodily injury, as the offender knows to be likely to cause the death of the person to whom the harm is caused.

 [3] With the intention of causing bodily injury to any person, and the bodily injury intended to be inflicted is sufficient in the ordinary course of nature to cause death.

 [4] With the knowledge that the act is so imminently dangerous that it must, in all probability, cause death, of such bodily injury as is likely to cause death, and commits such act without any excuse for incurring the risk of causing death of such injury as aforesaid.