The punishment of sections 299 and 300 has some distinction in IPC.
Section 299 of the Indian Penal Code defines the definition of Culpable Homicide whereas section 300 talks about Murder. The difference between both the offences is very confusing as they both have vast similarities in both the sections.
Overview
Sometimes we saw any act amounting to death, and we comment on the act as this is an act of Murder and we also make the assumption in our mind that the offence has been committed under the punishment of
302 of the Indian Penal Code but, it may not be true that the death was Murder or the
Culpable Homicide because due to presence of many similarities in nature they are different to understand. Here I would like to further elaborate the section 299 of IPC and 300 of the same.
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Section 299 of the Indian Penal code 1860
The section defines the nature of Murder as a Culpable Homicide where it speaks that any act that has been done with the intention to cause the death of such person except in these cases will become under the
definition of culpable homicide.
Many illustrations have been given but the short sense is if the act that is going to be done has the intention or any knowledge that it could caus4e the death of the person then it will cover the culpable homicide.
Section 300 of IPC
The section has a definition that speaks a lot about the act that comes under the
definition of Murder. Generally, there are some of the conditions that have been given, except which the culpable homicide is amount to be Murder.
Punishment
The punishment of both the section has been given in different sections as the punishment of section 299 has been given in
section 307 and the punishment for section 300 for Murder has been given in
section 302 of IPC.
Section 302, Murder Punishment
Here in the section, the punishment is defined for Murder as any person who is guilty of the offence as Murder will be punished with the death punishment or with life imprisonment as well as with the fine.
Section 307, Punishment for Culpable Homicide
The section has the provision for the Punishment of Culpable homicide as it has defi8nd that the offence culpable aHo0micide is divided into two categories as the person that has committed the offence has the intention to commit the act was have the intention to cause of death than the punishment will be the death punishment and otherwise it will be punished with the life imprisonment78.
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