BNS Section 66 — Punishment for causing death or resulting in persistent vegetative state of victim
Section 66 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 addresses “Punishment for causing death or resulting in persistent vegetative state of victim”. Read the provision below with its qualifications, exceptions and chapter context; the official source is linked alongside it.
66. Punishment for causing death or resulting in persistent vegetative state of victim.— Whoever, commits an offence punishable under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) of section 64 and in the course of such commission inflicts an injury which causes the death of the woman or causes the woman to be in a persistent vegetative state, shall be punished with rigorous imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than twenty years, but which may extend to imprisonment for life, which shall mean imprisonment for the remainder of that person’s natural life, or with death. ¶
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