- Culpable homicide by causing death of person other than person whose
death was intended —
If a person, by doing anything which he intends or knows to be likely to cause
death, commits culpable homicide by causing the death of any person, whose
death he neither intends nor knows himself to be likely to cause, the culpable
homicide committed by the offender 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.
COMMENTS
Accused is punishable for murder under doctrine of transfer of malice under
section 301 of the Code when he aimed at one and killed another person; Jagpal
Singh v. State of Punjab, (1991) Cr LJ 597 (SC).