THE PENAL CODE (INDIA ACT XLV. 1860) (1st May. 1861) CONTENTS CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION Sections 1. * * * * * 2. Punishment of offences committed within the Union of Burma. 3. Punishment of offences committed beyond, but which by law may be tried within the Union of...

THE PENAL CODE (INDIA ACT XLV. 1860) (1st May. 1861) CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION 1. * * * 2. Every person shall be liable to punishment under this Code and not otherwise for every act or omission contrary to the provisions thereof, which he shall be guilty within the Union...

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...

CHAPTER III OF PUNISHMENTS 53. The punishments to which offenders are liable under the provisions or this Code are :-- First.-- Death; Secondly.-- Transportation; 2[* * *] Fourthly. -- Imprisonment, which is of two descriptions, namely (1) Rigorous, that is, with hard...

CHAPTER IV GENERAL EXCEPTIONS 76. Nothing is an offence which is done by a person who is, or who by reason of a mistake of fact and not by reason of a mistake of law in good faith believes himself to be, bound by law to do it. Illustration (a) A, a soldier, fires on a...

CHAPTER V OF ABETMENT 107. A person abets the doing of a thing, who-­ First. -- Instigates any person to do that thing; or Secondly.-- Engages with one or more other person or person in any conspiracy for the doing of that thing, if an act or illegal omission takes...

CHARTER VI OF OFFENCES AGAINST THE STATE 1121. Whoever wages war against the Union of Burma or any constituent unit thereof, or assists any State or person or incites or conspires with any person within or without the Union to wage war against the Union or any...

CHAPTER VII OF OFFENCES RELATING TO THE, NAVY AND AIR FORCE 131. Whoever abets the committing of mutiny by an officer, soldier, sailor or airman, in the Army, Navy or Air Force (*****) 2, or attempts to seduce any officer, soldier, sailor or airman from his allegiance...

CHAPTER VIII OF OFFENCES AGAINST THE PUBLIC TRANQUILITY 141 .An assembly of five or more persons is designated an "unlawful assembly," if the common object of the person com­posing that assembly is-- First.-- To overawe by criminal force, or show of criminal force,...

CHAPTER IX OF OFFENCES BY OR RELATING TO PUBLIC SERVANTS 161. Whoever , being or expecting to be a public servant, accepts or obtains, or agrees to accept, or attempts to obtain from any person, for himself or for any other person, any gratification whatever, other...

CHAPTER X OF CONTEMPTS OF THE LAWFUL AUTHORITY OF PUBLIC SERVANTS 172. Whoever absconds in order to avoid being served with a summons notice or order proceeding from any public servant legally competent, as such, public servant, to is­sue such summons, notice or...

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 issued by the...

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. Explanation...

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 XX OF OFFENCES RELATING To MARRIAGE 493. Every man who by deceit causes any woman who is not lawfully married to him to believe that she is lawfully married to him, and to cohabit or have sexual inter­course with him in that belief, shall be punished with...

CHAPTER XXI OF DEFAMATION 499. Whoever, by words either spoken or intended to be read, or by signs or by visible representations, makes or publishes any imputation concerning any person, intending to harm, or knowing or having reason to believe that such imputa­tion...

CHAPTER XXII OF CRIMINAL INTIMIDATION, INSULT AND ANNOYANCE 503. Whoever threatens another with any injury to his person, reputation or property, or to the person or reputa­tion of any one in whom that person is interested, with intent to cause alarm to that person,...

CHAPTER XXIII OF ATTEMPTS To COMMIT OFFENCES 511. Whoever attempts to commit an offence pun­ishable by this Code with transportation or imprisonment, or to cause such an offence to be committed, and in such attempt does any act towards the commission of the offence,...