BNS Section 286 — Negligent conduct with respect to poisonous substance
Section 286 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 addresses “Negligent conduct with respect to poisonous substance”. Read the provision below with its qualifications, exceptions and chapter context; the official source is linked alongside it.
286. Negligent conduct with respect to poisonous substance.—Whoever does, with any poisonous substance, any act in a manner so rash or negligent as to endanger human life, or to be likely to cause hurt or injury to any person or knowingly or negligently omits to take such order with any poisonous substance in his possession as is sufficient to guard against any probable danger to human life from such poisonous substance, 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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