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Under which section of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 is an act of a person of unsound mind not an…

Section 22 BNS (formerly section 84 IPC) supplies the unsoundness-of-mind exception. At the time of the act, the person must be incapable, because of unsoundness of mind, of…

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Under which section of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 is an act of a person of unsound mind not an offence?

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Section 22 BNS (formerly section 84 IPC) supplies the unsoundness-of-mind exception. At the time of the act, the person must be incapable, because of unsoundness of mind, of knowing the act's nature or that it is wrong or contrary to law; a diagnosis alone does not establish the exception.

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