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Under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, how do murder and culpable homicide relate?

Section 100 defines culpable homicide. Section 101 specifies when it is murder and sets out exceptions. Section 105 expressly provides for punishment of culpable homicide…

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Under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, how do murder and culpable homicide relate?

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Section 100 defines culpable homicide. Section 101 specifies when it is murder and sets out exceptions.

Section 105 expressly provides for punishment of culpable homicide that does not amount to murder.

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Option A

Murder is the narrower category within culpable homicide.

Option B

The additional conditions and exceptions for murder leave some culpable homicides outside that category.

Option C

The categories overlap because murder is a form of culpable homicide.

Option D

Section 101 can also classify culpable homicide as murder under other mental-state conditions, such as knowledge of the extreme danger described in clause (d).

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