General Exceptions
IPC Section 95 - Act causing slight harm
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Simple language explanation
IPC Section 95 deals with act causing slight harm.
Full official legal text
95. 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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