BNS Section 33

Section 33 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), 2023, states that an act causing slight harm, even if intended or likely to cause harm, is not an offense if the harm is so trivial that a person of ordinary sense and temperament would not complain about it.

IPC Section 95

Nothing 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. Of the right of private defence

Example: While getting out of a bus, Rakesh slightly bumped into Vijay and hardly caused any harm to him. Here, Rakesh has not committed any offence. 

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