Stampede on platformSection 338 was invoked against actor Shah Rukh Khan in the Vadodara stampede case of 2017. The case against Mr. Khan was quashed by the Gujarat High Court in April 2022. Definition of negligence“Negligence differs in civil and criminal law. What may be negligence in civil law may not necessarily be negligence in criminal law. For an act to amount to criminal negligence, the degree of negligence should be much higher, that is, gross or of a very high degree.