This section covers negligent conduct with respect to poisonous substance in the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS 2003).
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.
What was the old IPC code for Section 286 of BNS 2023?
In the Indian Penal Code, negligent conduct with respect to poisonous substance was covered in S. 284*.