Section 33 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 addresses “Act causing slight harm”. Read the provision below with its qualifications, exceptions and chapter context; the official source is linked alongside it.
33. Act causing slight harm.—Nothing is an offence by reason that it causes, or that it is intended to cause, or that it is known to be likely to cause, any harm, if that harm is so slight that no person of ordinary sense and temper would complain of such harm. ¶
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