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Section 302 — Punishment for murder

As in force on 1 January 2013.

Timeline 3 versions
  1. 30 March 1987 Enacted
  2. 1 January 2013 Act 32 of 2012
  3. 17 August 2026 Latest
Amended in force 1 January 2013 by Penal Code (Amendment) Act 2012
302.Punishment for murder

(1)Whoever commits murder within the meaning of section 300(a) shall be punished with death.

(2)Whoever commits murder within the meaning of section 300(b), (c) or (d) shall be punished with death or imprisonment for life and shall, if he is not punished with death, also be liable to caning.

Whoever commits murder shall be punished with death.

[Indian PC 1860, s. 302]