Section 102 in THE BHARATIYA NYAYA SANHITA, 2023 – BNS

Culpable
homicide by
causing death
of person other
than person
whose death
was intended.

102. If a person, by doing anything which he intends or knows to be likely to cause
     death, commits culpable homicide by causing the death of any person, whose death he
     neither intends nor knows himself to be likely to cause, the culpable homicide committed by
     the offender is of the description of which it would have been if he had caused the death of
     the person whose death he intended or knew himself to be likely to cause.