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Which provision of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 addresses a landowner’s or occupier’s failure to…

Section 193(1) applies subject to its knowledge or reason-to-believe conditions. It joins the failure to give the earliest notice within the person’s power to the officer in…

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Which provision of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 addresses a landowner’s or occupier’s failure to give the earliest practicable police notice and to use applicable lawful preventive or suppressive measures in connection with an unlawful assembly or riot on the land?

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Section 193(1) applies subject to its knowledge or reason-to-believe conditions. It joins the failure to give the earliest notice within the person’s power to the officer in charge of the nearest police station and failures to take applicable lawful measures.

The preventive duty applies when there is reason to believe the offence is about to occur. If it occurs, the provision addresses the failure to use all lawful means within the person’s power to disperse or suppress it.

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Option A

Section 147 concerns waging or attempting to wage war against the Government of India, or abetting it.

Option B

Section 194(1) defines affray.

Option C

Section 61 deals with criminal conspiracy.

Option D

Section 193(1) specifies liability relating to notice and lawful preventive or suppressive measures when its conditions are met.

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