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'A' a 75-year-old terminally ill patient, pleads with his wife to give him poison so as to put an end…

Exception 5 to section 101 of the BNS says culpable homicide is not murder when the person killed, "being above the age of eighteen years, suffers death or takes the risk of…

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'A' a 75-year-old terminally ill patient, pleads with his wife to give him poison so as to put an end to his painful sufferings. The wife does as she is asked to do by her husband. The wife is liable for:

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Exception 5 to section 101 of the BNS says culpable homicide is not murder when the person killed, "being above the age of eighteen years, suffers death or takes the risk of death with his own consent". The adult husband asked for the poison, so the wife's act is culpable homicide that does not amount to murder. Consent reduces the offence but does not wipe it out, and the law recognises no defence of mercy killing.

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