Section 102 of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) 2023:Culpable homicide by causing death of person other than person whose death was intended.
Culpable homicide by causing death of person other than person whose death was intended.Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita 2023
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.