VI. Provision under Penal Code (Act 574)
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If a person is suspected to cause one’s death in detention, he can be considered
committing the offence of culpable homicide and based on the Penal Code, the
act is equal to killing people. The provisions can be identified in Section 229 and
300 of Penal Code as follows:
“229. 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.
300. Except in the cases hereinafter excepted, culpable homicide is murder.
(a) If the act by which the death is caused is done with the intention of causing
death;
(b) 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;
(c) 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
(d) if the person committing the act knows that it is so imminently dangerous that
it must in all probability causedeath, 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.”
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Moreover, the Penal Code also states the culpable homicide by causing the death
of a person other than the person whose death was intended as mentioned under
Section 301 of Penal Code as follows:
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