This section covers negligent conduct with respect to machinery in the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS 2003).
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.
What was the old IPC code for Section 289 of BNS 2023?
In the Indian Penal Code, negligent conduct with respect to machinery was covered in S. 287*.