VI. Provision under Penal Code (Act 574) 2.26 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.” 2.27 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: 27

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