CHAPTER XI OF FALSE EVIDENCE AND OFFENCES AGAINST PUBLIC JUSTICE 191. Whoever, being legally bound by an oath or by an express provision of law to state the truth, or being bound by law to make a declaration upon any subject, makes any statement which is false,...
CHAPTER XII OF OFFENCES RELATING TO COIN AND GOVERNMENT STAMPS 230. Coin is metal used for the time being as money, and stamped and issued by the authority of some State or Sovereign Power in order to be so used. [“Coin of the Union” is metal stamped or...
CHAPTER XIII OF OFFENCES RELATING TO WEIGHTS AND MEASURES 264. Whoever fraudulently uses any instrument for weighing which he knows to be false shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine, or with...
CHAPTER XIV OF OFFENCES AFFECTING THE PUBLIC HEALTH, SAFETY, CONVENIENCE, DECENCY AND MORALS 268. A person is guilty of a public nuisance who does any act or is guiltyto an illegal omission which causes any common injury, danger or annoyance to the public or to the...
CHAPTER XV OF OFFENCES RELATING TO RELIGION 295. Whoever destroys, damages or defiles any of worship, or any object held sacred by any class or person with the intention of thereby insulting the religion of any of person or with the knowledge that any class of likely...
CHAPTER XVI OF OFFENCE AFFECTING THE HUMAN BODY 299. (1) Whoever causes death by doing an Act with the intention of causing such bodily injury as is likely to cause death commits the offence of culpable homicide not amounting to murder. (2) Whoever causes death by...
CHAPTER XVII OF OFFENCES AGAINST PROPERTY Of Theft 378. Whoever, intending to take dishonestly any moveable property out of the possession of any person without that person’s consent, moves that property in order to such taking is said to commit theft....
CHAPTER XVIII OF OFFENCES RELATING TO DOCUMENTS AND TO TRADE OR PROPERTY MARKS 463. Whoever makes any false document or part of a document, with intent to cause damage or injury to the public or to any person, or to support any claim or title, or to cause any person...
CHAPTER XIX OF THE CRIMINAL BREACH OF CONTRACTS OF SERVICE 490. * * * * 491. Whoever, being bound by a lawful contract to attend on or to supply the wants of any person who, by reason of youth, or of unsoundness of mind, or of a disease or bodily weakness, is helpless...
CHAPTER II GENERAL EXPLANATIONS 6. Throughout this Code every definition of an offence, penal provision, and every illustration of every such definition of penal provision, shall be understood subject to the exceptions contain in the chapter entitled “General...
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