State Of Karnataka vs Chandravathi on 5 January, 2022
43. Whereas keeping in view Section 299 of IPC,
1860 relating to culpable homicide and the distinction
between culpable homicide and murder, the culpable
homicide is the genus and murder is its species and all
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murders are culpable homicides but all culpable
homicides are not murders as stated in a decision of
Hon'ble Supreme Court reported in Rampal Singh v.
State of Uttar Pradesh (2012) 8 SCC 289.