Indian Penal Code, 1860
36. Effect
caused partly by act and partly by omission
Wherever the causing
of a certain effect, or an attempt to cause that effect, by an act or by an
omission, is an offence, it is to be understood that the causing of that effect
partly by an act and partly by an omission is the same offence.
Illustration
A intentionally causes
Z’s death, partly by illegally omitting to give Z food, and partly by beating
Z. A has committed murder.