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Section 33 BNS — Act causing slight harm

Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 · Official PDF page 14

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33.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.

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