Criminal Negligence
Legal definition for Indian law research
Definition
Criminal negligence, is the gross and culpable neglect or failure to 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 imperative date of the accused person to have adopted, Jacob Mathew v. State of Punjab, (2005) 6 SCC 1.
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