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A priest beats a boy to cure him of an evil spirit. The boy dies. The priest is-

Beating a person under the superstitious belief that it cures possession causes death with knowledge of the likely consequence and is not shielded as an act done in good…

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A priest beats a boy to cure him of an evil spirit. The boy dies. The priest is-

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Beating a person under the superstitious belief that it cures possession causes death with knowledge of the likely consequence and is not shielded as an act done in good faith, so it amounts to culpable homicide under BNS s.100.

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