CHAPTER XIV OF OFFENCES A FFECTING THE PUBLIC HEALTH, SAFETY, CONVENIENCE, DECENCY AND MORALS

Section 285: Negligent conduct with respect to fire or combustible matter

Repealed by the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (45 of 2023) with effect from 1 July 2024.

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 one thousand rupees, or with both.

Now in the BNS

As given in the correspondence table of the National Crime Records Bureau (Ministry of Home Affairs). Read both texts before relying on it. NCRB table

285. Negligent conduct with respect to fire or combustible matter.

BNS 287

Questions on this section

1 question in 6 of our papers cite Section 285. Try these from the free papers:

1. Match List I (conduct) with List II (section of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023): List I A. Negligently omitting to guard a stock of explosive substance in one's possession against probable danger to human life B. Rashly handling a poisonous substance so as to endanger human life C. Knowingly omitting, while pulling down a building, to guard against probable danger to human life from its fall D. Negligently dealing with fire so as to endanger human life List II 1. Section 286 2. Section 287 3. Section 288 4. Section 290

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