Category Penal Section 299 Section 300 /302 Exceptions

Provision
Culpable homicide not Culpable Homicide amounting to Murder
amounting to murder (all culpable Homicide is murder except hereinafter
excepted – (i.e.) The excepted cases are not Murders
which would fall under Culpable Homicide)
L(1) L(1) Grave and
304 (1) sudden
Intention of Causing Death Intention of Causing Death Provocation

L(2) Private
304 (1) Defence
L(2) Intention of Causing Bodily Intention of Causing Bodily injury Offender Knows
Injury likely to Cause Death likely to cause death
(Special Knowledge)

L(3) Public Act

Intention of Causing bodily Injury – Injury intended to

be inflicted Sufficient in Ordinary course of Nature to
cause death Sudden
Fight

304 (2) L (3) L(4)

Knowledge by such act to Knows the act is so imminently dangerous in all Consent
cause death probabilities cause death or bodily injury likely to
cause death
Category Penal Section 299 Exceptions Section 300 /302
Provision
Culpable Culpable Homicide amounting to Murder
homicide not (all culpable Homicide are murder except hereinafter excepted – (i.e.)
amounting to The excepted cases are not Murders which would fall under Culpable
murder Homicide)

L(1) Grave and sudden L(1)

304 (1) Provocation
Intention of Intention of Causing Death
Causing Death

L(2) Private Defence L(2)

304 (1)
Intention of Intention of Causing Bodily injury Offender Knows
Causing Bodily (Special Knowledge)
Injury likely to
Cause Death
Public Act L(3)

Sudden Fight Intention of Causing bodily Injury – Injury intended to be inflicted

Sufficient in Ordinary course of Nature to cause death
304 (2) L (3) L(4)

Knowledge by Consent Knows the act is so imminently dangerous in all probabilities to cause
such act to cause death
death