BNS Section 270

BNS section 270 pertains to the offense of public nuisance. It defines public nuisance as any act or illegal omission that causes common injury, danger, or annoyance to the public or to people in general who occupy property in the vicinity.

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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