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Under which one of the following provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 is causing the death…

Explanation 3 to section 100 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (formerly Explanation 3 to section 299 IPC) provides that causing the death of a child in the mother's womb…

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Under which one of the following provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 is causing the death of a child in the mother's womb not homicide?

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Explanation 3 to section 100 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (formerly Explanation 3 to section 299 IPC) provides that causing the death of a child in the mother's womb is not homicide, though causing the death of a living child any part of which has been brought forth may be culpable homicide; so the answer is "Explanation III of Section 100". Explanations 1 and 2 to section 100 deal with acceleration of death and with death that proper treatment might have prevented, and section 101 contains the exceptions to murder, not a rule on this point.

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