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Which Section of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 is based on the 'Doctrine of Transfer of Malice'?

Section 102 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (formerly Section 301 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860) embodies the doctrine of transferred malice: when a person, by doing…

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Which Section of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 is based on the 'Doctrine of Transfer of Malice'?

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Section 102 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (formerly Section 301 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860) embodies the doctrine of transferred malice: when a person, by doing anything which he intends or knows to be likely to cause death, commits culpable homicide by causing the death of a person whose death he neither intends nor knows himself to be likely to cause, the culpable homicide is of the description of which it would have been if he had caused the death of the person whose death he intended or knew himself to be likely to cause. Section 108 deals with abetment of suicide, Section 80 with dowry death, and Section 91 with acts done with intent to prevent a child being born alive or to cause it to die after birth.

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