Section 66 in THE BHARATIYA NYAYA SANHITA, 2023 – BNS

Punishment for causing death or resulting in persistent vegetative state of victim.

66. 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.