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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.
Related Sections
- Section 404: Dishonest misappropriation of property possessed by deceased person at the time of his death
- Section 128: Public servant voluntarily allowing prisoner of State or war to escape
- Section 190: Threat of injury to induce person to refrain from applying for protection to public servant
- Section 381: Theft by clerk or servant of property in possession of master
- Section 377: Unnatural offences
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