Negligent machinery conduct can attract criminal penalties including imprisonment or fine for endangering human life. Section 289 creates the offence of negligent conduct with machinery where rash or negligent acts with machinery endanger human life or may cause hurt, and where a person knowingly or negligently omits to take sufficient measures with machinery in their possession or care to guard against probable danger to human life; punishment may be imprisonment up to six months, or a fine up to five thousand rupees, or both.
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Negligent machinery conduct can attract criminal penalties including imprisonment or fine for endangering human life.
Section 289 creates the offence of negligent conduct with machinery where rash or negligent acts with machinery endanger human life or may cause hurt, and where a person knowingly or negligently omits to take sufficient measures with machinery in their possession or care to guard against probable danger to human life; punishment may be imprisonment up to six months, or a fine up to five thousand rupees, or both.
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