Act causing slight harm
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Summary
An act that causes, intends to cause, or is known likely to cause harm is not an offence when the harm is so slight that a person of ordinary sense and temper would not complain. It applies where the injury or loss is objectively trivial and insignificant. Consequence: no criminal liability is attached.
Example
Priya brushes past Karan in a crowded bus and leaves a faint, quickly disappearing mark on his sleeve. The mark is so trivial that no reasonable person would complain, so Priya's action is not an offence under this rule.
Bare Act
Enacted textNothing 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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