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Section 304 - Indian Penal Code, 1860
Indian Penal Code, 1860
304. Punishment for culpable homicide not amounting to murder
Whoever commits culpable homicide not amounting to murder shall be punished with 104[imprisonment for life], or imprisonment of either description for a term 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, or with fine, or with both, 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.
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- Section 216A: Penalty for harboring robbers or dacoits
- Section 460: All persons jointly concerned in lurking house-trespass or house-breaking by night punishable where death or grievous hurt caused by one of them
- Section 385: Putting person in fear of injury in order to commit extortion
- Section 85: Act of a person incapable of judgment by reason of intoxication caused against his will
- Section 390: Robbery
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