IPC § 301 · Indian Penal Code, 1860 · Repealed on 1 July 2024
Section 301 IPC — Culpable homicide by causing death of person other than person whose death was intended
Replaced from 1 July 2024 by BNS 102 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023. Offences committed on or before 30 June 2024 are still charged under the IPC.
The law now: 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.
Source: India Code (indiacode.gov.in). The Gazette of India is the authoritative text. BNS 102 in full