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15.Section 299 of IPC, deals with culpable homicide, which reads as follows:

"299. Culpable homicide.—Whoever causes death by doing an act with the intention of causing death, or with the intention of causing such bodily injury as is likely to cause death, or with the knowledge that he is likely by such act to cause death, commits the offence of culpable homicide.

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16.Section 299 of IPC, has three limbs. The first limb speaks about the intention of causing death. The second limb speaks about the intention of causing such bodily injury as is likely to cause death. The third limb speaks about the knowledge of the offender that his act is likely to cause death. If the act of the offender falls in any one of the three limbs, then it will amount to culpable homicide. https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis/

17.Section 300 of IPC, deals with murder, which reads as follows:

"300. Murder. —Except in the cases hereinafter excepted, culpable homicide is murder, if the act by which the death is caused is done with the intention of causing death, or— 2ndly.—If it is done with the intention of causing such bodily injury as the offender knows to be likely to cause the death of the person to whom the harm is caused, or— 3rdly.—If it is done with the intention of causing bodily injury to any person and the bodily injury intended to be inflicted is sufficient in the ordinary course of nature to cause death, or— 4thly.—If the person committing the act knows that it is so imminently dangerous that it must, in all probability, cause death, or such bodily injury as is likely to cause death, and commits such act without any excuse for incurring the risk of causing death or such injury as aforesaid.

18.Section 300 IPC, contains four limbs.

(i) The first limb deals with the intention of causing death.

(ii) The second limb deals with the intention of causing such bodily injury as the offender knows to be likely to cause the death of the person to whom the harm is caused.

(iii) The third limb deals with the intention of causing bodily injury to any person and the bodily injury intended to be inflicted is https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis/ sufficient in the ordinary course of nature to cause death.