Legal Provisions of Section 286 of Indian Penal Code, 1860.
Negligent conduct with respect to explosive substance:
Sections 284 to 289 of the Code are similar in nature. This section penalises rash or negligent conduct with respect to explosive substance. According to the section, whoever does any act with any explosive substance in such a rash or negligent manner as to cause danger to human life, or to be likely to cause hurt or injury to another person, or with knowledge or negligently makes an omission to take such order with any explosive substance which he possesses as is sufficient to guard against any possible danger to human life from that substance, shall be punished with simple or rigorous imprisonment for a term extending up to six months, or with fine extending up to one thousand rupees, or with both.
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The section requires the doing on an act with any explosive substance. The act must be a rash or negligent act. It must endanger human life or it must be likely to cause hurt or injury to another person. If such is not the case then there must be an omission, with knowledge or with negligence, 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.
Even though the expression ‘explosive substance’ has not been defined in the Code, section 2 of the Explosive Substances Act, 1908 defines it as deemed to include any materials for making any explosive substance; also any apparatus, machine, implement or material used, or intended to be used, or adapted for causing, or aiding in causing, any explosion in or with any explosive substance; also any part of any such apparatus, machine or implement.
The offence under this section is cognizable, bailable and non-compoundable, and is triable by any magistrate.