BNS Section 287 — Negligent conduct with respect to fire or combustible matter
Section 287 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 addresses “Negligent conduct with respect to fire or combustible matter”. Read the provision below with its qualifications, exceptions and chapter context; the official source is linked alongside it.
287. Negligent conduct with respect to fire or combustible matter.—Whoever does, with fire or any combustible matter, any act so rashly or negligently as to endanger human life, or to be likely to cause hurt or injury to any other person or knowingly or negligently omits to take such order with any fire or any combustible matter in his possession as is sufficient to guard against any probable danger to human life from such fire or combustible matter, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to two thousand rupees, or with both. ¶
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