BNS · Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023
Section 33 — Act causing slight harm.
Replaces IPC Section 95.
Nothing is an offence by reason that it causes, or that it is intended to cause, or that it is known to be likely to cause, any harm, if that harm is so slight that no person of ordinary sense and temper would complain of such harm.
Nearby sections
- 30 Act done in good faith for benefit of a person without consent.
- 31 Communication made in good faith.
- 32 Act to which a person is compelled by threats.
- 34 Things done in private defence.
- 35 Right of private defence of body and of property.
- 36 Right of private defence against act of a person of unsound mind, etc.
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