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- Section 1(1) This Act may be called the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023.
- Section 2In this Sanhita, unless the context otherwise requires,––
- Section 3(1) Throughout this Sanhita every definition of an offence, every penal provision,
- Section 4The punishments to which offenders are liable under the provisions of this Sanhita
- Section 5The appropriate Government may, without the consent of the offender, commute
- Section 6In calculating fractions of terms of punishment, imprisonment for life shall be
- Section 7In every case in which an offender is punishable with imprisonment which may be
- Section 8(1) Where no sum is expressed to which a fine may extend, the amount of fine to
- Section 9(1) Where anything which is an offence is made up of parts, any of which parts is
- Section 10In all cases in which judgment is given that a person is guilty of one of several
- Section 11Whenever any person is convicted of an offence for which under this Sanhita the
- Section 12In executing a sentence of solitary confinement, such confinement shall in no case
- Section 13Whoever, having been convicted by a Court in India, of an offence punishable
- Section 14Nothing is an offence which is done by a person who is, or who by reason of a
- Section 15Nothing is an offence which is done by a Judge when acting judicially in the
- Section 16Nothing which is done in pursuance of, or which is warranted by the judgment or
- Section 17Nothing is an offence which is done by any person who is justified by law, or who
- Section 18Nothing is an offence which is done by accident or misfortune, and without any
- Section 19Nothing is an offence merely by reason of its being done with the knowledge that
- Section 20Nothing is an offence which is done by a child under seven years of age.
- Section 21Nothing is an offence which is done by a child above seven years of age and under
- Section 22Nothing is an offence which is done by a person who, at the time of doing it, by
- Section 23Nothing is an offence which is done by a person who, at the time of doing it, is, by
- Section 24In cases where an act done is not an offence unless done with a particular knowledge
- Section 25Nothing which is not intended to cause death, or grievous hurt, and which is not
- Section 26Nothing, which is not intended to cause death, is an offence by reason of any harm
- Section 27Nothing which is done in good faith for the benefit of a person under twelve years
- Section 28A consent is not such a consent as is intended by any section of this Sanhita,––
- Section 29The exceptions in sections 25, 26 and 27 do not extend to acts which are offences
- Section 30Nothing is an offence by reason of any harm which it may cause to a person for
- Section 31No communication made in good faith is an offence by reason of any harm to the
- Section 32Except murder, and offences against the State punishable with death, nothing is an
- Section 33Nothing is an offence by reason that it causes, or that it is intended to cause, or
- Section 34Nothing is an offence which is done in the exercise of the right of private defence.
- Section 35Every person has a right, subject to the restrictions contained in section 37, to
- Section 36When an act, which would otherwise be a certain offence, is not that offence, by
- Section 37(1) There is no right of private defence,––
- Section 38The right of private defence of the body extends, under the restrictions specified in
- Section 39If the offence be not of any of the descriptions specified in section 38, the right of
- Section 40The right of private defence of the body commences as soon as a reasonable
- Section 41The right of private defence of property extends, under the restrictions specified in
- Section 42If the offence, the committing of which, or the attempting to commit which occasions
- Section 43The right of private defence of property,––
- Section 44If in the exercise of the right of private defence against an assault which reasonably
- Section 45A person abets the doing of a thing, who—
- Section 46A person abets an offence, who abets either the commission of an offence, or the
- Section 47A person abets an offence within the meaning of this Sanhita who, in India, abets
- Section 48A person abets an offence within the meaning of this Sanhita who, without and
- Section 49Whoever abets any offence shall, if the act abetted is committed in consequence of
- Section 50Whoever abets the commission of an offence shall, if the person abetted does the
- Section 51When an act is abetted and a different act is done, the abettor is liable for the act
- Section 52If the act for which the abettor is liable under section 51 is committed in addition to
- Section 53When an act is abetted with the intention on the part of the abettor of causing a
- Section 54Whenever any person, who is absent would be liable to be punished as an abettor,
- Section 55Whoever abets the commission of an offence punishable with death or
- Section 56Whoever abets an offence punishable with imprisonment shall, if that offence be
- Section 57Whoever abets the commission of an offence by the public generally or by any
- Section 58Whoever intending to facilitate or knowing it to be likely that he will thereby
- Section 59Whoever, being a public servant, intending to facilitate or knowing it to be likely
- Section 60Whoever, intending to facilitate or knowing it to be likely that he will thereby
- Section 61(1) When two or more persons agree with the common object to do, or cause to be
- Section 62Whoever attempts to commit an offence punishable by this Sanhita with
- Section 63A man is said to commit “rape” if he—
- Section 64(1) Whoever, except in the cases provided for in sub-section (2), commits rape,
- Section 65(1) Whoever, commits rape on a woman under sixteen years of age shall be
- Section 66Whoever, commits an offence punishable under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2)
- Section 67Whoever has sexual intercourse with his own wife, who is living separately, whether
- Section 68Whoever, being—
- Section 69Whoever, by deceitful means or by making promise to marry to a woman without
- Section 70(1) Where a woman is raped by one or more persons constituting a group or acting
- Section 71Whoever has been previously convicted of an offence punishable under
- Section 72(1) Whoever prints or publishes the name or any matter which may make known
- Section 73Whoever prints or publishes any matter in relation to any proceeding before a
- Section 74Whoever assaults or uses criminal force to any woman, intending to outrage or
- Section 75(1) A man committing any of the following acts:—
- Section 76Whoever assaults or uses criminal force to any woman or abets such act with the
- Section 77Whoever watches, or captures the image of a woman engaging in a private act in
- Section 78(1) Any man who—
- Section 79Whoever, intending to insult the modesty of any woman, utters any words, makes
- Section 80(1) Where the death of a woman is caused by any burns or bodily injury or occurs
- Section 81Every man who by deceit causes any woman who is not lawfully married to him to
- Section 82(1) Whoever, having a husband or wife living, marries in any case in which such
- Section 83Whoever, dishonestly or with a fraudulent intention, goes through the ceremony
- Section 84Whoever takes or entices away any woman who is and whom he knows or has
- Section 85Whoever, being the husband or the relative of the husband of a woman, subjects
- Section 86For the purposes of section 85, “cruelty” means—
- Section 87Whoever kidnaps or abducts any woman with intent that she may be compelled, or
- Section 88Whoever voluntarily causes a woman with child to miscarry, shall, if such miscarriage
- Section 89Whoever commits the offence under section 88 without the consent of the woman,
- Section 90(1) Whoever, with intent to cause the miscarriage of a woman with child, does any
- Section 91Whoever before the birth of any child does any act with the intention of thereby
- Section 92Whoever does any act under such circumstances, that if he thereby caused death
- Section 93Whoever being the father or mother of a child under the age of twelve years, or
- Section 94Whoever, by secretly burying or otherwise disposing of the dead body of a child
- Section 95Whoever hires, employs or engages any child to commit an offence shall be
- Section 96Whoever, by any means whatsoever, induces any child to go from any place or to
- Section 97Whoever kidnaps or abducts any child under the age of ten years with the intention
- Section 98Whoever sells, lets to hire, or otherwise disposes of any child with intent that such
- Section 99Whoever buys, hires or otherwise obtains possession of any child with intent that
- Section 100Whoever causes death by doing an act with the intention of causing death,
- Section 101Except in the cases hereinafter excepted, culpable homicide is murder,––
- Section 102If a person, by doing anything which he intends or knows to be likely to cause
- Section 103(1) Whoever commits murder shall be punished with death or imprisonment for
- Section 104Whoever, being under sentence of imprisonment for life, commits murder, shall be
- Section 105Whoever commits culpable homicide not amounting to murder, shall be punished
- Section 106(1) Whoever causes death of any person by doing any rash or negligent act not
- Section 107If any child, any person of unsound mind, any delirious person or any person in
- Section 108If any person commits suicide, whoever abets the commission of such suicide,
- Section 109(1) Whoever does any act with such intention or knowledge, and under such
- Section 110Whoever does any act with such intention or knowledge and under such
- Section 111(1) Any continuing unlawful activity including kidnapping, robbery, vehicle
- Section 112(1) Whoever, being a member of a group or gang, either singly or jointly, commits
- Section 113(1) Whoever does any act with the intent to threaten or likely to threaten the
- Section 114Whoever causes bodily pain, disease or infirmity to any person is said to cause
- Section 115(1) Whoever does any act with the intention of thereby causing hurt to any
- Section 116The following kinds of hurt only are designated as “grievous”, namely:––
- Section 117(1) Whoever voluntarily causes hurt, if the hurt which he intends to cause or
- Section 118(1) Whoever, except in the case provided for by sub-section (1) of section 122,
- Section 119(1) Whoever voluntarily causes hurt for the purpose of extorting from the sufferer,
- Section 120(1) Whoever voluntarily causes hurt for the purpose of extorting from the sufferer
- Section 121(1) Whoever voluntarily causes hurt to any person being a public servant in the
- Section 122(1) Whoever voluntarily causes hurt on grave and sudden provocation, if he
- Section 123Whoever administers to or causes to be taken by any person any poison or any
- Section 124(1) Whoever causes permanent or partial damage or deformity to, or burns or
- Section 125Whoever does any act so rashly or negligently as to endanger human life or the
- Section 126(1) Whoever voluntarily obstructs any person so as to prevent that person from
- Section 127(1) Whoever wrongfully restrains any person in such a manner as to prevent that
- Section 128A person is said to use force to another if he causes motion, change of motion, or
- Section 129Whoever intentionally uses force to any person, without that person’s consent,
- Section 130Whoever makes any gesture, or any preparation intending or knowing it to be
- Section 131Whoever assaults or uses criminal force to any person otherwise than on grave
- Section 132Whoever assaults or uses criminal force to any person being a public servant in
- Section 133Whoever assaults or uses criminal force to any person, intending thereby to
- Section 134Whoever assaults or uses criminal force to any person, in attempting to commit
- Section 135Whoever assaults or uses criminal force to any person, in attempting wrongfully
- Section 136Whoever assaults or uses criminal force to any person on grave and sudden
- Section 137(1) Kidnapping is of two kinds: kidnapping from India, and kidnapping from
- Section 138Whoever by force compels, or by any deceitful means induces, any person to go
- Section 139(1) Whoever kidnaps any child or, not being the lawful guardian of such child,
- Section 140(1) Whoever kidnaps or abducts any person in order that such person may be
- Section 141Whoever imports into India from any country outside India any girl under the age
- Section 142Whoever, knowing that any person has been kidnapped or has been abducted,
- Section 143(1) Whoever, for the purpose of exploitation recruits, transports, harbours, transfers,
- Section 144(1) Whoever, knowingly or having reason to believe that a child has been trafficked,
- Section 145Whoever habitually imports, exports, removes, buys, sells, traffics or deals in
- Section 146Whoever unlawfully compels any person to labour against the will of that person,
- Section 147Whoever wages war against the Government of India, or attempts to wage such
- Section 148Whoever within or without and beyond India conspires to commit any of the
- Section 149Whoever collects men, arms or ammunition or otherwise prepares to wage war
- Section 150Whoever by any act, or by any illegal omission, conceals the existence of a
- Section 151Whoever, with the intention of inducing or compelling the President of India, or
- Section 152Whoever, purposely or knowingly, by words, either spoken or written, or by
- Section 153Whoever wages war against the Government of any foreign State at peace with
- Section 154Whoever commits depredation, or makes preparations to commit depredation, on
- Section 155Whoever receives any property knowing the same to have been taken in the
- Section 156Whoever, being a public servant and having the custody of any State prisoner or
- Section 157Whoever, being a public servant and having the custody of any State prisoner or
- Section 158Whoever knowingly aids or assists any State prisoner or prisoner of war in
- Section 159Whoever abets the committing of mutiny by an officer, soldier, sailor or airman, in
- Section 160Whoever abets the committing of mutiny by an officer, soldier, sailor or airman, in
- Section 161Whoever abets an assault by an officer, soldier, sailor or airman, in the Army,
- Section 162Whoever abets an assault by an officer, soldier, sailor or airman, in the Army,
- Section 163Whoever abets the desertion of any officer, soldier, sailor or airman, in the Army,
- Section 164Whoever, except as hereinafter excepted, knowing or having reason to believe
- Section 165The master or person in charge of a merchant vessel, on board of which any
- Section 166Whoever abets what he knows to be an act of insubordination by an officer,
- Section 167No person subject to the Air Force Act, 1950, the Army Act, 1950 and the Navy
- Section 168Whoever, not being a soldier, sailor or airman in the Army, Naval or Air service of
- Section 169For the purposes of this Chapter—
- Section 170(1) Whoever—
- Section 171(1) Whoever voluntarily interferes or attempts to interfere with the free exercise of
- Section 172Whoever at an election applies for a voting paper on votes in the name of any
- Section 173Whoever commits the offence of bribery shall be punished with imprisonment of
- Section 174Whoever commits the offence of undue influence or personation at an election
- Section 175Whoever with intent to affect the result of an election makes or publishes any
- Section 176Whoever without the general or special authority in writing of a candidate incurs
- Section 177Whoever being required by any law for the time being in force or any rule having
- Section 178Whoever counterfeits, or knowingly performs any part of the process
- Section 179Whoever imports or exports, or sells or delivers to, or buys or receives from, any
- Section 180Whoever has in his possession any forged or counterfeit coin, stamp,
- Section 181Whoever makes or mends, or performs any part of the process of making or
- Section 182(1) Whoever makes, or causes to be made, or uses for any purpose whatsoever,
- Section 183Whoever, fraudulently or with intent to cause loss to the Government, removes or
- Section 184Whoever, fraudulently or with intent to cause loss to the Government, uses for
- Section 185Whoever, fraudulently or with intent to cause loss to Government, erases or
- Section 186(1) Whoever—
- Section 187Whoever, being employed in any mint lawfully established in India, does any act,
- Section 188Whoever, without lawful authority, takes out of any mint, lawfully established in
- Section 189(1) An assembly of five or more persons is designated an “unlawful assembly”, if
- Section 190If an offence is committed by any member of an unlawful assembly in prosecution
- Section 191(1) Whenever force or violence is used by an unlawful assembly, or by any
- Section 192Whoever malignantly, or wantonly by doing anything which is illegal, gives
- Section 193(1) Whenever any unlawful assembly or riot takes place, the owner or occupier of
- Section 194(1) When two or more persons, by fighting in a public place, disturb the public
- Section 195(1) Whoever assaults or obstructs any public servant or uses criminal force on
- Section 196(1) Whoever—
- Section 197(1) Whoever, by words either spoken or written or by signs or by visible
- Section 198Whoever, being a public servant, knowingly disobeys any direction of the law as
- Section 199Whoever, being a public servant,—
- Section 200Whoever, being in charge of a hospital, public or private, whether run by the
- Section 201Whoever, being a public servant, and being, as such public servant, charged with
- Section 202Whoever, being a public servant, and being legally bound as such public servant
- Section 203Whoever, being a public servant, and being legally bound as such public servant,
- Section 204Whoever pretends to hold any particular office as a public servant, knowing that
- Section 205Whoever, not belonging to a certain class of public servants, wears any garb or
- Section 206Whoever absconds in order to avoid being served with a summons, notice or
- Section 207Whoever in any manner intentionally prevents the serving on himself, or on any
- Section 208Whoever, being legally bound to attend in person or by an agent at a certain place
- Section 209Whoever fails to appear at the specified place and the specified time as required
- Section 210Whoever, being legally bound to produce or deliver up any document or electronic
- Section 211Whoever, being legally bound to give any notice or to furnish information on any
- Section 212Whoever, being legally bound to furnish information on any subject to any
- Section 213Whoever refuses to bind himself by an oath or affirmation to state the truth,
- Section 214Whoever, being legally bound to state the truth on any subject to any public
- Section 215Whoever refuses to sign any statement made by him, when required to sign
- Section 216Whoever, being legally bound by an oath or affirmation to state the truth on
- Section 217Whoever gives to any public servant any information which he knows or
- Section 218Whoever offers any resistance to the taking of any property by the lawful
- Section 219Whoever intentionally obstructs any sale of property offered for sale by the
- Section 220Whoever, at any sale of property held by the lawful authority of a public
- Section 221Whoever voluntarily obstructs any public servant in the discharge of his
- Section 222Whoever, being bound by law to render or furnish assistance to any public
- Section 223Whoever, knowing that, by an order promulgated by a public servant lawfully
- Section 224Whoever holds out any threat of injury to any public servant, or to any person
- Section 225Whoever holds out any threat of injury to any person for the purpose of
- Section 226Whoever attempts to commit suicide with the intent to compel or restrain any
- Section 227Whoever, being legally bound by an oath or by an express provision of law to
- Section 228Whoever causes any circumstance to exist or makes any false entry in any
- Section 229(1) Whoever intentionally gives false evidence in any stage of a judicial
- Section 230(1) Whoever gives or fabricates false evidence, intending thereby to cause, or
- Section 231Whoever gives or fabricates false evidence intending thereby to cause, or
- Section 232(1) Whoever threatens another with any injury to his person, reputation or
- Section 233Whoever corruptly uses or attempts to use as true or genuine evidence any
- Section 234Whoever issues or signs any certificate required by law to be given or signed,
- Section 235Whoever corruptly uses or attempts to use any such certificate as a true
- Section 236Whoever, in any declaration made or subscribed by him, which declaration any
- Section 237Whoever corruptly uses or attempts to use as true any such declaration,
- Section 238Whoever, knowing or having reason to believe that an offence has been
- Section 239Whoever, knowing or having reason to believe that an offence has been
- Section 240Whoever, knowing or having reason to believe that an offence has been
- Section 241Whoever secretes or destroys any document or electronic record which he
- Section 242Whoever falsely personates another, and in such assumed character makes
- Section 243Whoever fraudulently removes, conceals, transfers or delivers to any person
- Section 244Whoever fraudulently accepts, receives or claims any property or any interest
- Section 245Whoever fraudulently causes or suffers a decree or order to be passed against
- Section 246Whoever fraudulently or dishonestly, or with intent to injure or annoy any
- Section 247Whoever fraudulently obtains a decree or order against any person for a sum
- Section 248Whoever, with intent to cause injury to any person, institutes or causes to be
- Section 249Whenever an offence has been committed, whoever harbours or conceals a
- Section 250Whoever accepts or attempts to obtain, or agrees to accept, any gratification
- Section 251Whoever gives or causes, or offers or agrees to give or cause, any gratification
- Section 252Whoever takes or agrees or consents to take any gratification under pretence
- Section 253Whenever any person convicted of or charged with an offence, being in lawful
- Section 254Whoever, knowing or having reason to believe that any persons are about to
- Section 255Whoever, being a public servant, knowingly disobeys any direction of the law
- Section 256Whoever, being a public servant, and being as such public servant, charged
- Section 257Whoever, being a public servant, corruptly or maliciously makes or pronounces
- Section 258Whoever, being in any office which gives him legal authority to commit persons
- Section 259Whoever, being a public servant, legally bound as such public servant to
- Section 260Whoever, being a public servant, legally bound as such public servant to
- Section 261Whoever, being a public servant legally bound as such public servant to keep
- Section 262Whoever intentionally offers any resistance or illegal obstruction to the lawful
- Section 263Whoever, intentionally offers any resistance or illegal obstruction to the lawful
- Section 264Whoever, being a public servant legally bound as such public servant to
- Section 265Whoever, in any case not provided for in section 262 or section 263 or in any
- Section 266Whoever, having accepted any conditional remission of punishment, knowingly
- Section 267Whoever, intentionally offers any insult, or causes any interruption to any public
- Section 268Whoever, by personation or otherwise, shall intentionally cause, or knowingly
- Section 269Whoever, having been charged with an offence and released on bail bond or on
- Section 270A person is guilty of a public nuisance who does any act or is guilty of an illegal
- Section 271Whoever unlawfully or negligently does any act which is, and which he knows or
- Section 272Whoever malignantly does any act which is, and which he knows or has reason
- Section 273Whoever knowingly disobeys any rule made by the Government for putting any
- Section 274Whoever adulterates any article of food or drink, so as to make such article
- Section 275Whoever sells, or offers or exposes for sale, as food or drink, any article which
- Section 276Whoever adulterates any drug or medical preparation in such a manner as to
- Section 277Whoever, knowing any drug or medical preparation to have been adulterated in
- Section 278Whoever knowingly sells, or offers or exposes for sale, or issues from a dispensary
- Section 279Whoever voluntarily corrupts or fouls the water of any public spring or reservoir,
- Section 280Whoever voluntarily vitiates the atmosphere in any place so as to make it noxious
- Section 281Whoever drives any vehicle, or rides, on any public way in a manner so rash or
- Section 282Whoever navigates any vessel in a manner so rash or negligent as to endanger
- Section 283Whoever exhibits any false light, mark or buoy, intending or knowing it to be
- Section 284Whoever knowingly or negligently conveys, or causes to be conveyed for hire,
- Section 285Whoever, by doing any act, or by omitting to take order with any property in his
- Section 286Whoever does, with any poisonous substance, any act in a manner so rash or
- Section 287Whoever does, with fire or any combustible matter, any act so rashly or negligently
- Section 288Whoever does, with any explosive substance, any act so rashly or negligently as
- Section 289Whoever does, with any machinery, any act so rashly or negligently as to endanger
- Section 290Whoever, in pulling down, repairing or constructing any building, knowingly or
- Section 291Whoever knowingly or negligently omits to take such measures with any animal
- Section 292Whoever commits a public nuisance in any case not otherwise punishable by this
- Section 293Whoever repeats or continues a public nuisance, having been enjoined by any
- Section 294(1) For the purposes of sub-section (2), a book, pamphlet, paper, writing, drawing,
- Section 295Whoever sells, lets to hire, distributes, exhibits or circulates to any child any such
- Section 296Whoever, to the annoyance of others,—
- Section 297(1) Whoever keeps any office or place for the purpose of drawing any lottery not
- Section 298Whoever destroys, damages or defiles any place of worship, or any object held
- Section 299Whoever, with deliberate and malicious intention of outraging the religious feelings
- Section 300Whoever voluntarily causes disturbance to any assembly lawfully engaged in
- Section 301Whoever, with the intention of wounding the feelings of any person, or of insulting
- Section 302Whoever, with the deliberate intention of wounding the religious feelings of any
- Section 303(1) Whoever, intending to take dishonestly any movable property out of the
- Section 304(1) Theft is snatching if, in order to commit theft, the offender suddenly or quickly
- Section 305Whoever commits theft—
- Section 306Whoever, being a clerk or servant, or being employed in the capacity of a clerk or
- Section 307Whoever commits theft, having made preparation for causing death, or hurt, or
- Section 308(1) Whoever intentionally puts any person in fear of any injury to that person, or
- Section 309(1) In all robbery there is either theft or extortion.
- Section 310(1) When five or more persons conjointly commit or attempt to commit a robbery,
- Section 311If, at the time of committing robbery or dacoity, the offender uses any deadly
- Section 312If, at the time of attempting to commit robbery or dacoity, the offender is armed
- Section 313Whoever belongs to any gang of persons associated in habitually committing
- Section 314Whoever dishonestly misappropriates or converts to his own use any movable
- Section 315Whoever dishonestly misappropriates or converts to his own use any property,
- Section 316(1) Whoever, being in any manner entrusted with property, or with any dominion
- Section 317(1) Property, the possession whereof has been transferred by theft or extortion or
- Section 318(1) Whoever, by deceiving any person, fraudulently or dishonestly induces the
- Section 319(1) A person is said to cheat by personation if he cheats by pretending to be some
- Section 320Whoever dishonestly or fraudulently removes, conceals or delivers to any person,
- Section 321Whoever dishonestly or fraudulently prevents any debt or demand due to himself
- Section 322Whoever dishonestly or fraudulently signs, executes or becomes a party to any
- Section 323Whoever dishonestly or fraudulently conceals or removes any property of himself
- Section 324(1) Whoever with intent to cause, or knowing that he is likely to cause, wrongful
- Section 325Whoever commits mischief by killing, poisoning, maiming or rendering useless
- Section 326Whoever commits mischief by,—
- Section 327(1) Whoever commits mischief to any rail, aircraft, or a decked vessel or any
- Section 328Whoever intentionally runs any vessel aground or ashore, intending to commit
- Section 329(1) Whoever enters into or upon property in the possession of another with
- Section 330(1) Whoever commits house-trespass having taken precautions to conceal such
- Section 331(1) Whoever commits lurking house-trespass or house-breaking, shall be punished
- Section 332Whoever commits house-trespass in order to the committing of any offence––
- Section 333Whoever commits house-trespass, having made preparation for causing hurt to
- Section 334(1) Whoever dishonestly or with intent to commit mischief, breaks open or
- Section 335A person is said to make a false document or false electronic record—
- Section 336(1) Whoever makes any false document or false electronic record or part of a
- Section 337Whoever forges a document or an electronic record, purporting to be a record or
- Section 338Whoever forges a document which purports to be a valuable security or a will, or
- Section 339Whoever has in his possession any document or electronic record, knowing the
- Section 340(1) A false document or electronic record made wholly or in part by forgery is
- Section 341(1) Whoever makes or counterfeits any seal, plate or other instrument for making
- Section 342(1) Whoever counterfeits upon, or in the substance of, any material, any device
- Section 343Whoever fraudulently or dishonestly, or with intent to cause damage or injury to
- Section 344Whoever, being a clerk, officer or servant, or employed or acting in the capacity
- Section 345(1) A mark used for denoting that movable property belongs to a particular person
- Section 346Whoever removes, destroys, defaces or adds to any property mark, intending or
- Section 347(1) Whoever counterfeits any property mark used by any other person shall be
- Section 348Whoever makes or has in his possession any die, plate or other instrument for the
- Section 349Whoever sells, or exposes, or has in possession for sale, any goods or things
- Section 350(1) Whoever makes any false mark upon any case, package or other receptacle
- Section 351(1) Whoever threatens another by any means, with any injury to his person,
- Section 352Whoever intentionally insults in any manner, and thereby gives provocation to
- Section 353(1) Whoever makes, publishes or circulates any statement, false information,
- Section 354Whoever voluntarily causes or attempts to cause any person to do anything
- Section 355Whoever, in a state of intoxication, appears in any public place, or in any place
- Section 356(1) Whoever, by words either spoken or intended to be read, or by signs or by
- Section 357Whoever, being bound by a lawful contract to attend on or to supply the wants
- Section 358(1) The Indian Penal Code is hereby repealed.
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