General Exceptions
BNS Section 33 - Act causing slight harm
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33. Act causing slight harm.--Nothing is an offence by reason that it causes, or that it is intended to
cause, or that it is known to be likely to cause, any harm, if that harm is so slight that no person of
ordinary sense and temper would complain of such harm.
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