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 been if he had caused the death of the person whose death he intended or knew himself to be likely to cause.
Section history
Section 301 — Culpable homicide by causing the death of a person other than the person whose death was intended
Consolidated view is experimental and may be broken for certain provisions.
Amendments
Section 301 — Original text to 30 November 2008superseded
Section 301 — From 30 November 2008 (current)rewritten by the Revised Edition
(1)2020If 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]
(2)To avoid doubt, in the circumstances mentioned in subsection (1), the accused person may rely on any defence or exception in law as though the accused person had caused the death of the person whose death he intended or knew himself to be likely to cause.
[Indian PC 1860, s. 301]