Section 104 Earlier IPC 303
Punishment for murder by life-convict
Chapter 6: Offences affecting the human body
Whoever, being under sentence of imprisonment for life, commits murder, shall be punished with death or with imprisonment for life, which shall mean the remainder of that person’s natural life.
The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (Act No. 45 of 2023). As printed in the Gazette on 25 December 2023. Later amendments, if any, are not included.
Related sections
- 101MurderIPC 300
- 102Culpable homicide by causing death of person other than person whose death was intendedIPC 301
- 103Punishment for murderIPC 302
- 105Punishment for culpable homicide not amounting to murderIPC 304
- 106Causing death by negligenceIPC 304A
- 107Abetment of suicide of child or person of unsound mindIPC 305