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Section 39 - Indian Penal Code, 1860
Indian Penal Code, 1860
39. "Voluntarily"
A person is said to cause an effect "voluntarily" when he causes it by means whereby he intended to cause it, or by means which, at the time of employing, those means, he knew or had reason to believe to be likely to cause it.
Illustration
A sets fire, by night, to-an inhabited house in a large town, for the purpose of facilitating a robbery and thus causes the death of a person. Here, A may not have intended to cause death; and may even be sorry that death has been caused by his act; yet, if he knew that he was likely to cause death, he has caused death voluntarily.
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- Section 386: Extortion by putting a person in fear of death or grievous hurt to
- Section 402: Assembling for purpose of committing dacoity
- Section 157: Harboring persons hired for an unlawful assembly
- Section 474: Having possession of document described in section 466 or 467, knowing it to be forged and intending to use it as genuine
- Section 381: Theft by clerk or servant of property in possession of master
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