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How do sections 100 and 101 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 classify murder and culpable homicide?

Section 100 defines culpable homicide. Section 101 identifies when culpable homicide amounts to murder, subject to specified exceptions. Every murder therefore falls within…

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How do sections 100 and 101 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 classify murder and culpable homicide?

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Section 100 defines culpable homicide. Section 101 identifies when culpable homicide amounts to murder, subject to specified exceptions.

Every murder therefore falls within culpable homicide, which also includes cases that fall short of murder.

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Option A

Section 101 defines when culpable homicide amounts to murder, leaving other culpable homicides outside that category.

Option B

The relation is reversed. Murder is the narrower statutory category.

Option C

Section 101's requirements and exceptions prevent the two categories from having identical scope.

Option D

The definition in section 101 expressly builds on culpable homicide, so the classes overlap.

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