Under sub-section (2) of Section 106 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, a person who causes the death of any person by rash and negligent driving of a vehicle not amounting to culpable homicide, and escapes without reporting the incident to a police officer or a Magistrate soon after the incident, shall be punished with -

Section 106(1) of the BNS punishes causing death by any rash or negligent act not amounting to culpable homicide with imprisonment which may extend to five years and fine; where the act is done by a registered medical practitioner while performing a medical procedure, the punishment is up to two years. Sub-section (2) creates a new aggravated offence: whoever causes death by rash and negligent driving of a vehicle not amounting to culpable homicide, and escapes without reporting the incident to a police officer or a Magistrate soon after the incident, shall be punished with imprisonment which may extend to ten years and fine.