BNS Section 284 — Conveying person by water for hire in unsafe or overloaded vessel
Section 284 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 addresses “Conveying person by water for hire in unsafe or overloaded vessel”. Read the provision below with its qualifications, exceptions and chapter context; the official source is linked alongside it.
284. Conveying person by water for hire in unsafe or overloaded vessel.—Whoever knowingly or negligently conveys, or causes to be conveyed for hire, any person by water in any vessel, when that vessel is in such a state or so loaded as to endanger the life of that person, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to five thousand rupees, or with both. ¶
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