In cases where a person kills another person by hitting, beating, stabbing, or poking by using a stone or other minor weapon or by means of any act which results in the death, if such an act has been committed by a person, such person, and, if it is proved by the evidence that the person was killed or died due to the hurt inflicted by any particular person in a case where a group of people were involved in the commission, such person shall be
considered to be the principal murderer.
Such a person shall be liable to the punishment of imprisonment for life, along with confiscation of the entire property. Any person other than those mentioned above and where it cannot be proved by the evidence that the victim was killed by a particular person or where the person who has used the weapon to hurt the victim cannot be identified, all of them involved in the commission of crime shall
be liable to the punishment of imprisonment for life…………..3