IPC · Chapter XIV · Of offences affecting the public health, safety, convenience, decency and morals
IPC section 283, “Danger or obstruction in public way or line of navigation”, is now BNS section 285 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, in force from 1 July 2024.
Now BNS section 285. Causing danger or obstruction in a public way or line of navigation is punishable with fine of up to ₹5,000 (IPC: ₹200).
Indian Penal Code, 1860
Whoever, by doing any act, or by omitting to take order with any property in his possession or under his charge, causes danger, obstruction or injury to any person in any public way or public line of navigation, shall be punished, with fine which may extend to two hundred rupees.
Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023
Whoever, by doing any act, or by omitting to take order with any property in his possession or under his charge, causes danger, obstruction or injury to any person in any public way or public line of navigation, shall be punished with fine which may extend to five thousand rupees.
The texts are India Code’s. The amendment markers and footnotes of the official print are left out, so the old section reads as it stood when it was repealed; State amendments are not shown. The PDFs linked below carry the full history.
The BNS repealed the IPC from 1 July 2024 (section 358(1)). The repeal does not reach back: under section 358(2), penalties and punishments incurred for offences committed against the IPC still stand, and proceedings for them may be started, continued and enforced as if the IPC had not been repealed. An act done before 1 July 2024 is therefore dealt with under the IPC section; an act done on or after that date, under the BNS.
