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Detailed explanation to Culpable
homicide and murder
Section 299 and 300 IPC
Class 3
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Law Entrance Exam 2021
Kriti Bhatnagar
KRITIB
WHAT WILL WE COVER TODAY
1. Homicide
2. Section 299
3. Section 300
4. Difference between section 299 and 300
5. Exceptions to section 300
6. MCQs
WHAT IS HOMICIDE
Culpable
homicide not Rash or negligent Attempt to commit
amounting to homicide (Sec 304A) suicide (Sec 309)
murder Murder (Sec
(Sec 299) 300)
SECTION 299
The section has the following essentials:
1. Causing of death of a human being.
2. Such death must have been caused by doing an act
(i) with the intention of causing death; or
(ii) with the intention of causing such bodily injury as is
likely to cause death; or
(iii) with the knowledge that the doer is likely by such act
to cause death.
(a) Murder
(d) No offense
Questions
9 The deceased admonished her own son for not going for
fishing with the co-villagers. Infuriated on this the accused,
the son brought an axe and dealt with the blows on her
shoulder and she died. There was no pre plan of the
offence. The blows were not on the neck or head region.
The accused dealt blows likely to cause bodily injury which
was likely to cause death and he dealt blows on the spur of
moment and anger.
Deceased is liable for-
a. Not liable as provocation existed
b. Murder
c. A case of culpable homicide.
d. Liable for grievous hurt
Questions