0The highest degree of harm that can be inflicted on the human body is making that body dies. Individual acts which cause deaths are justified, and some are excusable while some are punishable. The justified and justifiable acts which cause deaths are covered by Chapter 4 of the IPC, 1860. Section 299 & 300 of IPC deal with those acts which are made punishable if death is caused by a human being without any excuse or justifiable reasons. Section 299 defines culpable homicide, and section 300 describes Murder. In both sections, the consequence of one's act is death then how can one figure out whether the act which caused death is a culpable homicide or a Murder?
