Difference between Murder and Culpable Homicide

Murder vs Culpable Homicide

All murders are culpable homicide but not all culpable homicides are murder.

Culpable Homicide under section 299

Culpable Homicide: Whoever causes death by doing an act with the intention of causing death, or with the intention of causing such bodily injury as is likely to cause death, or with the knowledge that he is likely by such act to cause death, commits the offence of culpable homicide.

It has the following ingredients:

Intention of causing death
Intention of causing such bodily injury as is likely to cause death
Knowledge that the act done is likely to cause death

Murder under section 300

Culpable Homicide is murder:

If the act by which the death is caused is done with the intention of causing death, or
If it is done with the intention of causing such bodily injury as the offender knows to be likely to cause the death of the person to whom the harm is caused, or

If it is done with the intention of causing bodily injury to any person and the bodily injury intended to be inflicted is sufficient in the ordinary course of nature to cause death, or
If the person committing the act knows that it is so imminently dangerous that it must, in all probability, cause death, or such bodily injury as is likely to cause death, and commits such act without any excuse for incurring the risk of causing death or such injury as aforesaid.

It has the following ingredients:

Intention of causing death
Intention of causing such bodily injury which is likely to cause death of the person, and this is known to the offender.
Injury to cause such bodily injury as is sufficient in ordinary course of nature to cause death of a person
Knowledge that the act done is sufficiently dangerous that in all probabilities it may cause death, or cause such bodily injury which is likely to cause death, and the act is done without any excuse to cause death or such bodily injury.