BNS Section 270: Public nuisance
Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 · Chapter 15: Of Offences Affecting the Public Health, Safety, Convenience,
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270. A person is guilty of a public nuisance who does any act or is guilty of an illegal omission which causes any common injury, danger or annoyance to the public or to the people in general who dwell or occupy property in the vicinity, or which must necessarily cause injury, obstruction, danger or annoyance to persons who may have occasion to use any public right but a common nuisance is not excused on the ground that it causes some convenience or advantage
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Other sections in this chapter
- 271. Negligent act likely to spread infection of disease dangerous to life
- 272. Malignant act likely to spread infection of disease dangerous to life
- 273. Disobedience to quarantine rule
- 274. Adulteration of food or drink intended for sale
- 275. Sale of noxious food or drink
- 276. Adulteration of drugs
- 277. Sale of adulterated drugs
- 278. Sale of a drug as a different drug or preparation
- 279. Fouling water of public spring or reservoir
- 280. Making the atmosphere noxious to health
- 281. Rash driving or riding on a public way
- 282. Rash navigation of a vessel
- 283. Exhibition of a false light, mark, or buoy
- 284. Conveying a person by water for hire in an unsafe or overloaded vessel
- 285. Danger or obstruction in a public way or line of navigation
- 286. Negligent conduct with respect to a poisonous substance
- 287. Negligent conduct with respect to fire or combustible matter
- 288. Negligent conduct with respect to an explosive substance
- 289. Negligent conduct with respect to machinery
- 290. Negligent conduct with respect to pulling down, repairing, or constructing buildings, etc
- 291. Negligent conduct with respect to an animal
- 292. Punishment for public nuisance in cases not otherwise provided for
- 293. Continuance of a nuisance after an injunction to discontinue
- 294. Sale, etc., of obscene books, etc
- 295. Sale, etc., of obscene objects to a child
- 296. Obscene acts and songs
- 297. Keeping a lottery office