Chapter 14 — Offences Affecting The Public Health, Safety, Convenience, Decency And Morals
Section 268: Public nuisance
A person is guilty of a public nuisance who does any act or is guilty of an illegal omission which causes any common injury, danger or annoyance to the public or to the people in general who dwell or occupy property in the vicinity, or which must necessarily cause injury, obstruction, danger or annoyance to persons who may have occasion to use any public right.
About The Indian Penal Code, 1860
An Act to provide a general Penal Code for India.