Section 376A of IPC 1860: Punishment for causing death or resulting in persistent vegetative state of victim
Punishment for causing death or resulting in persistent vegetative state of victim-Indian Penal Code
Whoever, commits an offence punishable under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) of section 376 and in the course of such commission inflicts an injury which causes the death of the woman or causes the woman to be in a persistent vegetative state, shall be punished with rigorous imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than twenty years, but which may extend to imprisonment for life, which shall mean imprisonment for the remainder of that person™s natural life, or with death.