Negligent conduct with respect to pulling down or repairing buildings
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Summary
When a building is being pulled down or repaired, the person responsible must take sufficient precautions to guard against any probable danger to human life from the building or any part of it. If they knowingly or negligently omit those precautions, they can be punished with up to six months' imprisonment, or a fine up to one thousand rupees, or both.
Example
Priya hires labourers to repair a cracked balcony. She skips proper shoring and does not cordon off the footpath; a slab falls and injures a passerby. Because she negligently omitted precautions against the probable danger, she can be prosecuted and face up to six months' imprisonment or a fine up to one thousand rupees, or both.
Bare Act
Enacted textWhoever, in pulling down or repairing any building, knowingly or negligently omits to take such order with that building as is sufficient to guard against any probable danger to human life from the fall of that building, or of any part thereof, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees, or with both.
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