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Which provision of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 gives effect to the maxim de minimis non curat lex…

Section 33 applies when the harm is so slight that a person of ordinary sense and temper would not complain of it. This is the principle that the law disregards trifles.

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Which provision of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 gives effect to the maxim de minimis non curat lex by excluding acts causing slight harm from criminal liability?

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Section 33 applies when the harm is so slight that a person of ordinary sense and temper would not complain of it. This is the principle that the law disregards trifles.

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Section 30 concerns certain good-faith acts for a person’s benefit without consent.

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Section 31 concerns communications made in good faith.

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Section 32 concerns acts done under qualifying threats.

Option D

Section 33 provides the slight-harm exception.

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