Public nuisance, in India it is a punishable offence; the ingredients of this offence are: (1) doing of any act or illegal omission to do an act; (2) the act or omission causes any common injury, danger or annoyance to the public; has both civil as well as criminal liability, Indian Penal Code, s. 268.
Means any nuisance which materially affects the reasonable. Comfort and conveniences of class ......... To establish the offence of public nuisance it is necessary to show that a substantive section of the public has been affected, as opposed to just a few individuals, Strouds Judicial Dictionary, Vol. 2, p. 212
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