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Which provision of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 states the homicide rule for causing the death of…

Explanation 3 to section 100 states that causing the death of a child in the womb is outside homicide. The death of a living child may be culpable homicide once any part of…

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Which provision of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 states the homicide rule for causing the death of a child in the womb and its qualification for a living child partly brought forth?

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Explanation 3 to section 100 states that causing the death of a child in the womb is outside homicide. The death of a living child may be culpable homicide once any part of that child has been brought forth, even if the child has neither breathed nor been completely born.

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Explanation 1 deals with accelerating the death of a person with a disorder, disease or bodily infirmity.

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Explanation 2 addresses bodily injury that causes death even though proper treatment might have prevented it.

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Explanation 3 states the womb-death rule and the qualification for a living child partly brought forth.

Option D

Exception 5 to section 101 concerns consent to death or the risk of death.

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