Section 102 BNS

102. Culpable homicide by causing death of person other than person whose death was intended.- If a person, by doing anything which he intends or knows to be likely to cause death, commits culpable homicide by causing the death of any person, whose death he neither intends nor knows himself to be likely to cause, the culpable homicide committed by the offender is of the description of which it would have been if he had caused the death of the person whose death he intended or knew himself to be likely to cause.

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Introduction

Section 102 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, deals with a situation where a person causes the death of someone unintentionally while intending or knowing that his act is likely to cause the death of another person. This section clarifies that the offender is still guilty of culpable homicide, and the offence is treated as if the intended person had died, even though someone else actually died.