102. 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 have been if he had caused the death of the person whose death he intended or knew himself to be likely to cause.
IPC Section 301 in BNS: Section 102
Culpable homicide by causing death of person other than person whose death was intended
Section 301 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (Culpable homicide by causing death of person other than person whose death was intended) corresponds to Section 102 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, in force from 1 July 2024.
Text of BNS Section 102
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