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A child of the following age is presumed to be doli incapax:

Under section 82 of the Indian Penal Code nothing is an offence which is done by a child under seven years of age, so "A child under 7 years of age" is conclusively presumed…

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A child of the following age is presumed to be doli incapax:

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Under section 82 of the Indian Penal Code nothing is an offence which is done by a child under seven years of age, so "A child under 7 years of age" is conclusively presumed doli incapax. A child above seven and under twelve is protected under section 83 only if he has not attained sufficient maturity of understanding, so that presumption can be rebutted, and the eight-to-fourteen and seven-to-ten brackets are not found in the Code. The same rules are now in sections 20 and 21 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023.

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