Section 289. Negligent conduct with respect to machinery
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Act
The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023
Section number
289
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The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023
289. Negligent conduct with respect to machinery.
Whoever does, with any machinery, 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 machinery in his possession or under his care as is sufficient to guard against any probable danger to human life from such machinery, 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.
