Which section of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 punishes a hospital’s person in charge for…

Section 200 BNS (formerly section 166B IPC) punishes the person in charge of a public or private hospital who contravenes section 397 BNSS (formerly section 357C CrPC). That duty concerns immediate free first aid or medical treatment of victims of the specified rape and acid-attack offences and the listed POCSO offences, and informing the police; it is not a penal provision for every refusal to treat any patient.

Section 199 concerns a public servant disobeying specified directions under law, section 72 concerns disclosure of the identity of a victim of certain sexual offences, and section 70 concerns gang rape.