According to the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, culpable homicide means

Section 100 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (formerly section 299 IPC) says that whoever causes death by doing an act with the intention of causing death, or with the intention of causing such bodily injury as is likely to cause death, or with the knowledge that he is likely by such act to cause death, commits the offence of culpable homicide. So "causing death intentionally" describes culpable homicide. An attempt to cause death or the causing of grievous injury does not involve a death, and causing an injury likely to cause death is culpable homicide only where death results and the required intention is present.