Legal Provisions of Section 287 of Indian Penal Code, 1860.
Negligent conduct with respect to machinery:
Sections 284 to 289 of the Code are similar in nature. This section makes rash or negligent conduct with respect to machinery an offence. It says that whoever does any act with any machinery which is so rash or negligent as to cause danger to human life, or to be likely to cause hurt or injury to any other person, or with knowledge or with negligence makes an omission to take such order with any machinery which he possesses or which is under his care as is sufficient to guard against any probable danger to human life from that machinery, 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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ADVERTISEMENTS:
The section requires the doing of an act with any machinery. The act must be rash or negligent. 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 machinery which he possesses or which is under his care as is sufficient to guard against any probable danger to human life from such machinery.
The offence under this section is cognizable, bailable and non-compoundable, and is triable by any magistrate.