Murder under Section 300 Indian Penal Code
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Murder under Section 300 Indian Penal Code: All you need to know about it

Section 300 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) defined when culpable homicide amounted to murder, focusing on factors such as intention to cause death, intention to cause a bodily injury likely or sufficient to cause death, and acts known to be so imminently dangerous that they would probably cause death. The provision also contained important exceptions that could reduce an offence from murder to culpable homicide not amounting to murder. Since 1 July 2024, the IPC has been replaced by the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, which now governs such offences.

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