#death by negligence

The Karnataka High Court upheld conviction under Section 304-A IPC for negligent driving resulting in death, reducing the sentence from one year to six months while setting aside the merged Section 279 IPC charge. It affirmed that delayed victim identification is legally sufficient when corroborated by vehicle registration details and the accused’s failure to deny involvement, reinforcing evidentiary standards in road accident prosecutions.

The Orissa High Court affirmed that administering medical injections without any recognized qualification, resulting in death, amounts to criminal negligence under Section 304A IPC. This ruling clarifies that quackery causing fatal outcomes cannot be treated as mere civil misconduct, reinforcing accountability in unregulated medical practice across rural India.