Rashness, Rashness consists in hazarding a dangerous or wanton act with the knowledge that it is so, and that it may cause injury. The criminality lies in such a case in running the risk of doing such an act with recklessness or indifference as to the consequences. Criminal negligence on the other hand, is the gross and culpable neglect or failure of exercise that reasonable and proper care and precaution to guard against injury either to the public generally or to an individual in particular, which, having regard to all the circumstances out of which the charge has arisen, it was the impera-tive duty of the accused person to have adopted, S.N. Hussain v. State of Andhra Pradesh, AIR 1972 SC 685 (687): 1972 3 SCC 18. (Indian Penal Code, s. 304A)
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