Raghu is fond of fast driving and often goes on long drives at fast speed in the early hours of morning…
By deliberately driving through a group of children without slowing down despite seeing them, Raghu commits an act he knows to be so imminently dangerous that it must in all…
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Raghu is fond of fast driving and often goes on long drives at fast speed in the early hours of morning when there is less traffic on the roads. One morning he sees a large group of school children assembled outside the school at 5am in the morning as they were to be taken on a school trip. He doesn't slow down his car and drives through that group thereby killing a child and injuring several others. He is guilty of
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By deliberately driving through a group of children without slowing down despite seeing them, Raghu commits an act he knows to be so imminently dangerous that it must in all probability cause death, satisfying clause (d) of Section 101 BNS (formerly the fourth clause of section 300 IPC), so he is guilty of "Murder".
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