Section 232
Prohibition Of Conducting Medical Treatment By Recklessness Or Negligence
(1) No person authorized under law to conduct medical
treatment shall, in conducting medical treatment of any one, conduct
such treatment, administer any drug or prescribe for the
administration of drug to him or her in a reckless or negligent
manner, without taking adequate care or precaution.
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(2) Where any act referred to in sub-section (1) causes
death of or grievous hurt to any one, the offender shall be liable to a
sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years and a
fine not exceeding fifty thousand rupees if the death or grievous hurt
has been caused from a reckless act and to a sentence of
imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years and a fine not
exceeding thirty thousand rupees if the death or grievous hurt has
been caused from a negligent act.