● Modified in BNS
Section 302 IPC prescribed the punishment for murder as defined in Section 300 — the gravest form of culpable homicide, committed with the intention of causing death. Punishment: death, or imprisonment for life, and fine.
BNS Section 103(1) carries the same punishment for murder: death or imprisonment for life, and fine. A new sub-section 103(2) separately punishes murder committed by a group of five or more persons on grounds of race, caste, community, sex, place of birth, language or personal belief (mob lynching) with death or imprisonment for life, and fine.
Renumbered from IPC 302 to BNS 103. Core punishment unchanged; a new, specific provision for murder by a group on identity grounds (mob lynching) has been added.
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