● Retained in BNS
Section 299 is the foundational definition of culpable homicide -- causing death with intention to cause death or likely-fatal injury, or with knowledge death is a likely result. BNS Section 100 reproduces it unchanged; murder (BNS 101) and culpable homicide not amounting to murder (BNS 105) both build on this definition.
Section 299 IPC defined culpable homicide as causing death by an act done with the intention of causing death, with the intention of causing bodily injury likely to cause death, or with the knowledge that the act is likely to cause death. Three Explanations covered accelerating an already-dying person's death, death from a treatable injury, and death of a child that has been partly brought forth (as opposed to an unborn child).
BNS Section 100 reproduces the definition, all three illustrations, and all three Explanations verbatim -- no substantive change.
Nothing changed -- a pure renumbering from IPC 299 to BNS 100, textually identical.
This is the foundational definitional provision; the punishment and its associated defences sit under the sections that build on it -- murder (IPC 300/302, now BNS 101/103) and culpable homicide not amounting to murder (IPC 304, now BNS 105), both already published.
Summaries are for general information and are not legal advice. For the authoritative bare-act text, see the official Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 and Indian Penal Code, 1860 (full amended text, as it stood before repeal) on India Code, or the Ministry of Home Affairs' new criminal laws page. ← All comparisons