The word “act” denotes as well a series of acts as a single act; the word “omission” denotes as well a series of omissions as a single omission.
Section history
Section 33 — “Act” and “omission”
Consolidated view is experimental and may be broken for certain provisions.
Amendments
Section 33 — Original text to 30 November 2008superseded
Section 33 — From 30 November 2008 (current)rewritten by the Revised Edition
(1)2020The word “act” denotes as well a series of acts as a single act; the word “omission” denotes as well a series of omissions as a single omission.
[Indian PC 1860, s. 33]
(2)To avoid doubt, where a person does a series of acts, one or more of which caused a certain effect, that person is regarded to have caused that effect by that series of acts even if it is not known which of the acts in that series caused that effect.
Illustration
A gives Z small doses of poison in Z’s food at different times over the course of a few days, with intent to kill Z. Z dies from poisoning, although it is not known which of those doses (individually or collectively) caused Z’s death. A has caused Z’s death by poisoning.
[Indian PC 1860, s. 33]