Whoever does, with any explosive substance, any act so rashly or negligently as to endanger human life, or to be likely to cause hurt or injury to any other person, or knowingly or negligently omits to take such order with any explosive substance in his possession as is sufficient to guard against any probable danger to human life from that substance, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 6 months2008one year2008, or with fine which may extend to $1,000 2008$5,0002008, or with both.
Section history
Section 286 — Presumption of cause of fire
Consolidated view is experimental and may be broken for certain provisions.
Amendments
Section 286 — Original text to 30 November 2008superseded
Section 286 — 30 November 2008 to 1 January 2020rewritten by the Revised Edition
Whoever does, with any explosive substance, any act so rashly or negligently as to endanger human life, or to be likely to cause hurt or injury to any other person, or knowingly or negligently omits to take such order with any explosive substance in his possession as is sufficient to guard against any probable danger to human life from such substance, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine which may extend to $5,000, or with both.
[Indian PC 1860, s. 286]
Section 286 — From 1 January 2020 (current)rewritten by Criminal Law Reform Act 2019
In any proceedings for an offence under section 285, where any person deposits, drops, places or throws a cigarette or part thereof, cigar, match stick, charcoal, incense, any form of embers or any thing that is likely to cause fire in any place, and a fire occurs at that place or in the vicinity of that place within 60 minutes from the time of that act, that person is, until the contrary is proved, presumed to have substantially contributed to the risk of causing that fire.