BNS Section 66

BNS Section 66 pertains to the punishment for causing death or resulting in a persistent vegetative state of the victim.

IPC Section 376A

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.
 

• Rigorous imprisonment for not less than 20 years but which may extend to imprisonment for life which shall mean imprisonment for the remainder of that person’s natural life or death.
• Cognizable
• Non-bailable
• Triable by Court of Session

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