BNS Section 105 — Punishment for culpable homicide not amounting to murder
CHAPTER VI OF OFFENCES AFFECTING THE HUMAN BODY — Of offences affecting life
Criminal
Summary
Whoever commits culpable homicide that does not amount to murder is punishable with imprisonment for life, or with imprisonment of either description for a term of not less than five years but which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine, if the act causing death is done with the intention of causing death, or of causing such bodily injury as is likely to cause death.
Alternatively, if the act is done with the knowledge that it is likely to cause death, but without any intention to cause death or to cause such bodily injury as is likely to cause death, the punishment is imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, along with fine.
Official Text
Whoever commits culpable homicide not amounting to murder, shall be punished with imprisonment for life, or imprisonment of either description for a term which shall not be less than five years but which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine, if the act by which the death is caused is done with the intention of causing death, or of causing such bodily injury as is likely to cause death; or with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years and with fine, if the act is done with the knowledge that it is likely to cause death, but without any intention to cause death, or to cause such bodily injury as is likely to cause death.
Related Provisions
culpable homicide not amounting to murder
Related Judgments
- SC (2025) Vol.6 p.280 — Supreme Court of India (2025)
- SC (2025) Vol.3 p.1309 — Supreme Court of India (2025)
- SC (2025) Vol.11 p.291 — Supreme Court of India (2025)
- SC (2025) Vol.3 p.1531 — Supreme Court of India (2025)
- CRL A/321/2018 — Madras High Court (2018)
- SC (2024) Vol.8 p.670 — Supreme Court of India (2024)
- ...Petitioner vs The Assistant Commissioner of Police, — Madras High Court (2014)
- CRL A/500/2018 — Madras High Court (2018)