BNS Section 280: Making the atmosphere noxious to health
Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 · Chapter 15: Of Offences Affecting the Public Health, Safety, Convenience, - Decency and Morals
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¶280. Whoever voluntarily vitiates the atmosphere in any place so as to make it noxious to the health of persons in general dwelling or carrying on business in the neighbourhood or passing along a public way, shall be punished with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees.
Study: explanations and related material
Replaces IPC 278. IPC → BNS converterSource: BPR&D BNS–IPC corresponding section table (UP Police, 2024-06-28)
Punishment, bail and trial
280Making atmosphere noxious to health.
- Punishment
- Fine of 1,000 rupees.
- Cognizable or not
- Non‑cognizable
- Bailable or not
- Bailable
- Triable by
- Any Magistrate
Source: BNSS First Schedule, Gazette of India, 25 December 2023, p. 179. The Schedule gives the substance of the section, not its full definition, and a State may have amended the classification for its territory. See it in the full First Schedule
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Other sections in this chapter
- 270. Public nuisance
- 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
- 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