● Retained in BNS
Section 300 defines when culpable homicide rises to murder -- intention to cause death, or injury known or objectively sufficient to cause death, or an act so imminently dangerous it must in all probability cause death. BNS Section 101 reproduces the definition, all four limbs and all five Exceptions unchanged; the punishment sits in the companion section (302, now BNS 103).
Section 300 IPC defined murder as culpable homicide (defined in the preceding Section 299) committed with intention to cause death, with intention to cause bodily injury the offender knows is likely to cause death, with intention to cause bodily injury objectively sufficient in the ordinary course of nature to cause death, or with knowledge that the act is so imminently dangerous it must in all probability cause death. Five Exceptions -- grave and sudden provocation, exceeding private defence in good faith, a public servant exceeding lawful powers in good faith, a sudden fight without undue advantage or cruelty, and consent of an adult victim -- reduce the offence back to culpable homicide not amounting to murder.
BNS Section 101 reproduces the definition, all four limbs, the illustrations, and all five Exceptions essentially verbatim, restructuring the run-on IPC prose into lettered clauses. No substantive change to the definition, illustrations or any Exception.
Unchanged in substance. Pure renumbering from IPC 300 to BNS 101, with prose reformatted into lettered clauses.
This is a definitional provision; the punishment and its associated defences sit under the companion punishment section, IPC 302 / BNS 103.
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