This section covers conveying person by water for hire in unsafe or overloaded vessel in the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS 2003).
Conveying person by water for hire in unsafe or overloaded vessel.
Whoever knowingly or negligently conveys, or causes to be conveyed for hire, any person by water in any vessel, when that vessel is in such a state or so loaded as to endanger the life of that person, 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 284 of BNS 2023?
In the Indian Penal Code, conveying person by water for hire in unsafe or overloaded vessel was covered in S. 282*.