Wherever the causing of a certain effect, or an attempt to cause that effect, by an act or by an omission, is an offence, it is to be understood that the causing of that effect partly by an act and partly by an omission is the same offence.
Section history
Section 36 — Effect caused partly by act and partly by omission
Consolidated view is experimental and may be broken for certain provisions.
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A intentionally causes Z’s death, partly by illegally omitting to give Z food, and partly by beating Z. A has committed murder.
[Indian PC 1860, s. 36]