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Under which section of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 is non-treatment of victims by public or…

Section 200 BNS (formerly section 166B IPC) punishes the person in charge of a public or private hospital for contravening the treatment duty under section 397 BNSS. It is…

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Under which section of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 is non-treatment of victims by public or private hospitals punishable?
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Section 200 BNS (formerly section 166B IPC) punishes the person in charge of a public or private hospital for contravening the treatment duty under section 397 BNSS. It is not a general criminal penalty for every instance of negligent treatment: the duty concerns immediate free first aid or medical treatment of victims of the specified sexual offences and acid attack, and of the listed POCSO offences, and informing the police. Section 199 (public servant disobeying direction under law), section 70 (gang rape) and section 72 (disclosure of identity of victim) do not create this hospital-duty offence.

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