THE BHARATIYA NYAYA SANHITA, 2023 ACT NO. 45 OF 2023 [25th December, 2023.] An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to IPC 1860 – Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita Act 2023
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| Sections | Particulars |
| Chapter I | Preliminary |
| 1. | Short title, commencement and application |
| 2. | Definitions |
| 3. | General explanations |
| Chapter II | Of Punishments |
| 4. | Punishments |
| 5. | Commutation of sentence |
| 6. | Fractions of terms of punishment |
| 7. | Sentence may be (in certain cases of imprisonment) wholly or partly rigorous or simple |
| 8. | Amount of fine, liability in default of payment of fine, etc |
| 9. | Limit of punishment of offence made up of several offences |
| 10. | Punishment of person guilty of one of several offences, judgment stating that it is doubtful of which |
| 11. | Solitary confinement |
| 12. | Limit of solitary confinement |
| 13. | Enhanced punishment for certain offences after previous conviction |
| Chapter III | General Exceptions |
| 14. | Act done by a person bound, or by mistake of fact believing himself bound, by law |
| 15. | Act of Judge when acting judiciall |
| 16. | Act done pursuant to judgment or order of Court |
| 17. | Act done by a person justified, or by mistake of fact believing himself justified, by law |
| 18. | Accident in doing a lawful act |
| 19. | Act likely to cause harm, but done without criminal intent, and to prevent other harm |
| 20. | Act of a child under seven years of age |
| 21. | Act of a child above seven and under twelve years of age of immature understanding |
| 22. | Act of a person of unsound mind |
| 23. | Act of a person incapable of judgment by reason of intoxication caused against his will |
| 24. | Offence requiring a particular intent or knowledge committed by one who is intoxicated |
| 25. | Act not intended and not known to be likely to cause death or grievous hurt, done by consent |
| 26. | Act not intended to cause death, done by consent in good faith for person’s benefit |
| 27. | Act done in good faith for benefit of child or person of unsound mind, by, or by consent of guardian |
| 28. | Consent known to be given under fear or misconception |
| 29. | Exclusion of acts which are offences independently of harm caused |
| 30. | Act done in good faith for benefit of a person without consent |
| 31. | Communication made in good faith |
| 32. | Act to which a person is compelled by threats |
| 33. | Act causing slight harm |
| 34. | Things done in private defence |
| 35. | Right of private defence of body and of property |
| 36. | Right of private defence against act of a person of unsound mind, etc |
| 37. | Acts against which there is no right of private defence |
| 38. | When right of private defence of body extends to causing death |
| 39. | When such right extends to causing any harm other than death |
| 40. | Commencement and continuance of right of private defence of body |
| 41. | When right of private defence of property extends to causing death |
| 42. | When such right extends to causing any harm other than death |
| 43. | Commencement and continuance of right of private defence of property |
| 44. | Right of private defence against deadly assault when there is risk of harm to innocent person |
| Chapter IV | Of Abetment, Criminal Conspiracy and Attempt |
| 45. | Abetment of a thing |
| 46. | Abettor |
| 47. | Abetment in India of offences outside India |
| 48. | Abetment outside India for offence in India |
| 49. | Punishment of abetment if act abetted is committed in consequence and where no express provision is made for its punishment |
| 50. | Punishment of abetment if person abetted does act with different intention from that of abettor |
| 51. | Liability of abettor when one act abetted and different act done |
| 52. | Abettor when liable to cumulative punishment for act abetted and for act done |
| 53. | Liability of abettor for an effect caused by act abetted different from that intended by abettor |
| 54. | Abettor present when offence is committed |
| 55. | Abetment of offence punishable with death or imprisonment for life |
| 56. | Abetment of offence punishable with imprisonment |
| 57. | Abetting commission of offence by public or by more than ten persons |
| 58. | Concealing design to commit offence punishable with death or imprisonment for life |
| 59. | Public servant concealing design to commit offence which it is his duty to prevent |
| 60. | Concealing design to commit offence punishable with imprisonment |
| 61. | Criminal conspiracy |
| 62. | Punishment for attempting to commit offences punishable with imprisonment for life or other imprisonment |
| Chapter V | Of Offences Against Woman and Child |
| 63. | Rape |
| 64. | Punishment for rape |
| 65. | Punishment for rape in certain cases |
| 66. | Punishment for causing death or resulting in persistent vegetative state of victim |
| 67. | Sexual intercourse by husband upon his wife during separation |
| 68. | Sexual intercourse by a person in authority |
| 69. | Sexual intercourse by employing deceitful means, etc |
| 70. | Gang rape |
| 71. | Punishment for repeat offenders |
| 72. | Disclosure of identity of victim of certain offences, etc |
| 73. | Printing or publishing any matter relating to Court proceedings without permission |
| 74. | Assault or use of criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty |
| 75. | Sexual harassment |
| 76. | Assault or use of criminal force to woman with intent to disrobe |
| 77. | Voyeurism |
| 78. | Stalking |
| 79. | Word, gesture or act intended to insult modesty of a woman |
| 80. | Dowry death |
| 81. | Cohabitation caused by man deceitfully inducing belief of lawful marriage |
| 82. | Marrying again during lifetime of husband or wife |
| 83. | Marriage ceremony fraudulently gone through without lawful marriage |
| 84. | Enticing or taking away or detaining with criminal intent a married woman |
| 85. | Husband or relative of husband of a woman subjecting her to cruelty |
| 86. | Cruelty defined |
| 87. | Kidnapping, abducting or inducing woman to compel her marriage, etc |
| 88. | Causing miscarriage |
| 89. | Causing miscarriage without woman’s consent |
| 90. | Death caused by act done with intent to cause miscarriage |
| 91. | Act done with intent to prevent child being born alive or to cause to die after birth |
| 92. | Causing death of quick unborn child by act amounting to culpable homicide |
| 93. | Exposure and abandonment of child under twelve years of age, by parent or person having care of it |
| 94. | Concealment of birth by secret disposal of dead body |
| 95. | Hiring, employing or engaging a child to commit an offence |
| 96. | Procuration of child |
| 97. | Kidnapping or abducting child under ten years of age with intent to steal from its person |
| 98. | Selling child for purposes of prostitution, etc |
| 99. | Buying child for purposes of prostitution, etc |
| Chapter VI | Of Offences Affecting The Human Body |
| 100. | Culpable homicide |
| 101. | Murder |
| 102. | Culpable homicide by causing death of person other than person whose death was intended |
| 103. | Punishment for murder |
| 104. | Punishment for murder by life-convict |
| 105. | Punishment for culpable homicide not amounting to murder |
| 106. | Causing death by negligence |
| 107. | Abetment of suicide of child or person of unsound mind |
| 108. | Abetment of suicide |
| 109. | Attempt to murder |
| 110. | Attempt to commit culpable homicide |
| 111. | Organised crime |
| 112. | Petty Organized crime |
| 113. | Terrorist act |
| 114. | Hurt |
| 115. | Voluntarily causing hurt |
| 116. | Grievous hurt |
| 117. | Voluntarily causing grievous hurt |
| 118. | Voluntarily causing hurt or grievous hurt by dangerous weapons or means |
| 119. | Voluntarily causing hurt or grievous hurt to extort property, or to constrain to an illegal act |
| 120. | Voluntarily causing hurt or grievous hurt to extort confession, or to compel restoration of property |
| 121. | Voluntarily causing hurt or grievous hurt to deter public servant from his duty |
| 122. | Voluntarily causing hurt or grievous hurt on provocation |
| 123. | Causing hurt by means of poison, etc., with intent to commit an offence |
| 124. | Voluntarily causing grievous hurt by use of acid, etc |
| 125. | Act Endangering life or personal safety of others |
| 126. | Wrongful restraint |
| 127. | Wrongful confinement |
| 128. | Force |
| 129. | Criminal force |
| 130. | Assault |
| 131. | Punishment for assault or criminal force otherwise than on grave provocation |
| 132. | Assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty |
| 133. | Assault or criminal force with intent to dishonor person, otherwise than on grave provocation |
| 134. | Assault or criminal force in attempt to commit theft of property carried by a person |
| 135. | Assault or criminal force in attempt to wrongfully confine a person |
| 136. | Assault or criminal force on grave provocation |
| 137. | Kidnapping |
| 138. | Abduction |
| 139. | Kidnapping or maiming a child for purposes of begging |
| 140. | Kidnapping or abducting in order to murder or for ransom, etc |
| 141. | Importation of girl or boy from foreign country |
| 142. | Wrongfully concealing or keeping in confinement, kidnapped or abducted person |
| 143. | Trafficking of person |
| 144. | Exploitation of a trafficked person |
| 145. | Habitual dealing in slaves |
| 146. | Unlawful compulsory labour |
| Chapter VII | Of Offences Against The State |
| 147. | Waging, or attempting to wage war, or abetting waging of war, against Government of India |
| 148. | Conspiracy to commit offences punishable by section 147 |
| 149. | Collecting arms, etc., with intention of waging war against Government of India |
| 150. | Concealing with intent to facilitate design to wage war |
| 151. | Assaulting President, Governor, etc., with intent to compel or restrain exercise of any lawful power |
| 152. | Act endangering sovereignty, unity and integrity of India |
| 153. | Waging war against Government of any foreign State at peace with Government of India |
| 154. | Committing depredation on territories of foreign State at peace with Government of India |
| 155. | Receiving property taken by war or depredation mentioned in sections 153 and 154 |
| 156. | Public servant voluntarily allowing prisoner of State or war to escape |
| 157. | Public servant negligently suffering such prisoner to escape |
| 158. | Aiding escape of, rescuing or harbouring such prisoner |
| Chapter VIII | Of Offences Relating to The Army, Navy and Air Force |
| 159. | Abetting mutiny, or attempting to seduce a soldier, sailor or airman from his duty |
| 160. | Abetment of mutiny, if mutiny is committed in consequence thereof |
| 161. | Abetment of assault by soldier, sailor or airman on his superior officer, when in execution of his office |
| 162. | Abetment of such assault, if assault committed |
| 163. | Abetment of desertion of soldier, sailor or airman |
| 164. | Harbouring deserter |
| 165. | Deserter concealed on board merchant vessel through negligence of master |
| 166. | Abetment of act of insubordination by soldier, sailor or airman |
| 167. | Persons subject to certain Acts |
| 168. | Wearing garb or carrying token used by soldier, sailor or airman |
| Chapter IX | Of Offences Relating to Elections |
| 169. | Candidate, electoral right defined |
| 170. | Bribery |
| 171. | Undue influence at elections |
| 172. | Personation at elections |
| 173. | Punishment for bribery |
| 174. | Punishment for undue influence or personation at an election |
| 175. | False statement in connection with an election |
| 176. | Illegal payments in connection with an election |
| 177. | Failure to keep election accounts |
| Chapter X | Of Offences Relating to Coin, Currency-Notes, Bank-Notes, and Government Stamps |
| 178. | Counterfeiting coin, Government stamps, currency-notes or bank-notes |
| 179. | Using as genuine, forged or counterfeit coin, Government stamp, currency-notes or bank-notes |
| 180. | Possession of forged or counterfeit coin, Government stamp, currency-notes or bank-notes |
| 181. | Making or Possessing instruments or materials for forging or counterfeiting coin, Government stamp, currency-notes or bank-notes |
| 182. | Making or Using documents resembling currency-notes or bank-notes |
| 183. | Effacing writing from substance bearing Government stamp, or removing from document a stamp used for it, with intent to cause loss to Government |
| 184. | Using Government stamp known to have been before used |
| 185. | Erasure of mark denoting that stamp has been used |
| 186. | Prohibition of Fictitious stamps |
| 187. | Person employed in mint causing coin to be of different weight or composition from that fixed by law |
| 188. | Unlawfully taking coining instrument from mint |
| Chapter XI | Of Offences Against The Public Tranquillity |
| 189. | Unlawful assembly |
| 190. | Every member of unlawful assembly guilty of offence committed in prosecution of common object |
| 191. | Rioting |
| 192. | Wantonly giving provocation with intent to cause riot-if rioting be committed; if not committed |
| 193. | Liability of owner, occupier, etc., of land on which an unlawful assembly or riot takes place |
| 194. | Affray |
| 195. | Assaulting or Obstructing public servant when suppressing riot, etc |
| 196. | Promoting Enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, place of birth, residence, language, etc., and doing acts prejudicial to maintenance of harmony |
| 197. | Imputations, Assertions prejudicial to national integration |
| Chapter XII | Of Offences by or Relating to Public Servants |
| 198. | Public servant disobeying law, with intent to cause injury to any person |
| 199. | Public servant disobeying direction under law |
| 200. | Punishment for nontreatment of victim |
| 201. | Public servant framing an incorrect document with intent to cause injury |
| 202. | Public servant unlawfully engaging in trade |
| 203. | Public servant unlawfully buying or bidding for property |
| 204. | Personating a public servant |
| 205. | Wearing garb or carrying token used by public servant with fraudulent intent |
| Chapter XIII | Of Contempts of The Lawful Authority of Public Servants |
| 206. | Absconding to avoid service of summons or other proceeding |
| 207. | Preventing service of summons or other proceeding, or preventing publication thereof |
| 208. | Nonattendance in obedience to an order from public servant |
| 209. | Nonappearance in response to a proclamation under section 84 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 |
| 210. | Omission to Produce document or electronic record to public servant by person legally bound to produce it |
| 211. | Omission to give notice or information to public servant by person legally bound to give it |
| 212. | Furnishing False information |
| 213. | Refusing oath or affirmation when duly required by public servant to make it |
| 214. | Refusing to answer public servant authorised to question |
| 215. | Refusing to sign statement |
| 216. | False statement on oath or affirmation to public servant or person authorised to administer an oath or affirmation |
| 217. | False information, with intent to cause public servant to use his lawful power to injury of another person |
| 218. | Resistance to taking of property by lawful authority of a public servant |
| 219. | Obstructing sale of property offered for sale by authority of public servant |
| 220. | Illegal purchase or bid for property offered for sale by authority of public servant |
| 221. | Obstructing public servant in discharge of public functions |
| 222. | Omission to assist public servant when bound by law to give assistance |
| 223. | Disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant |
| 224. | Threat of injury to public servant |
| 225. | Threat of injury to induce person to refrain from applying for protection to public servant |
| 226. | Attempt to commit suicide to compel or restrain exercise of lawful power |
| Chapter XIV | Of False Evidence and Offences Against Public Justice |
| 227. | Giving false evidence |
| 228. | Fabricating false evidence |
| 229. | Punishment for false evidence |
| 230. | Giving or Fabricating false evidence with intent to procure conviction of capital offence |
| 231. | Giving or Fabricating false evidence with intent to procure conviction of offence punishable with imprisonment for life or imprisonment |
| 232. | Threatening any person to give false evidence |
| 233. | Using evidence known to be false |
| 234. | Issuing or signing false certificate |
| 235. | Using as true a Certificate known to be false |
| 236. | False Statement made in declaration which is by law receivable as evidence |
| 237. | Using as true such declaration knowing it to be false |
| 238. | Causing Disappearance of evidence of offence, or giving false information to screen offender |
| 239. | Intentional omission to give information of offence by person bound to inform |
| 240. | Giving false information respecting an offence committed |
| 241. | Destruction of document or electronic record to prevent its production as evidence |
| 242. | False Personation for purpose of act or proceeding in suit or prosecution |
| 243. | Fraudulent removal or concealment of property to prevent its seizure as forfeited or in execution |
| 244. | Fraudulent claim to property to prevent its seizure as forfeited or in execution |
| 245. | Fraudulently Suffering decree for sum not due |
| 246. | Dishonestly making false claim in Court |
| 247. | Fraudulently Obtaining decree for sum not due |
| 248. | False charge of offence made with intent to injure |
| 249. | Harbouring offender |
| 250. | Taking gift, etc., to screen an offender from punishment |
| 251. | Offering gift or restoration of property in consideration of screening offender |
| 252. | Taking gift to help to recover stolen property, etc |
| 253. | Harbouring offender who has escaped from custody or whose apprehension has been ordered |
| 254. | Penalty for Harbouring robbers or dacoits |
| 255. | Public servant Disobeying direction of law with intent to save person from punishment or property from forfeiture |
| 256. | Public servant framing incorrect record or writing with intent to save person from punishment or property from forfeiture |
| 257. | Public servant in judicial proceeding corruptly making report, etc., contrary to law |
| 258. | Commitment for trial or confinement by person having authority who knows that he is acting contrary to law |
| 259. | Intentional omission to apprehend on part of public servant bound to apprehend |
| 260. | Intentional omission to apprehend on part of public servant bound to apprehend person under sentence or lawfully committed |
| 261. | Escape from Confinement or custody negligently suffered by public servant |
| 262. | Resistance or obstruction by a person to his lawful apprehension |
| 263. | Resistance or obstruction to lawful apprehension of another person |
| 264. | Omission to apprehend, or sufferance of escape, on part of public servant, in cases not otherwise provided for |
| 265. | Resistance or obstruction to lawful apprehension or escape or rescue in cases not otherwise provided for |
| 266. | Violation of condition of remission of punishment |
| 267. | Intentional insult or interruption to public servant sitting in judicial proceeding |
| 268. | Personation of assessor |
| 269. | Failure by person released on bail bond or bond to appear in Court |
| Chapter XV | Of Offences Affecting The Public Health, Safety, Convenience, Decency and Morals |
| 270. | Public nuisance |
| 271. | Negligent act likely to spread infection of disease dangerous to life |
| 272. | Malignant act likely to spread infection of disease dangerous to life |
| 273. | Disobedience to quarantine rule |
| 274. | Adulteration of food or drink intended for sale |
| 275. | Sale of noxious food or drink |
| 276. | Adulteration of drugs |
| 277. | Sale of adulterated drugs |
| 278. | Sale of drug as a different drug or preparation |
| 279. | Fouling water of public spring or reservoir |
| 280. | Making Atmosphere noxious to health |
| 281. | Rash driving or riding on a public way |
| 282. | Rash navigation of vessel |
| 283. | Exhibition of false light, mark or buoy |
| 284. | Conveying person by water for hire in unsafe or overloaded vessel |
| 285. | Danger or obstruction in public way or line of navigation |
| 286. | Negligent conduct with respect to poisonous substance |
| 287. | Negligent conduct with respect to fire or combustible matter |
| 288. | Negligent conduct with respect to explosive substance |
| 289. | Negligent conduct with respect to machinery |
| 290. | Negligent conduct with respect to pulling down, repairing or constructing buildings, etc |
| 291. | Negligent conduct with respect to animal |
| 292. | Punishment for public nuisance in cases not otherwise provided for |
| 293. | Continuance of nuisance after injunction to discontinue |
| 294. | Sale, etc., of obscene books, etc |
| 295. | Sale, etc., of Obscene objects to child |
| 296. | Obscene acts and songs |
| 297. | Keeping lottery office |
| Chapter XVI | Of Offences Relating to Religion |
| 298. | Injuring or defiling place of worship with intent to insult religion of any class |
| 299. | Deliberate and malicious acts, intended to outrage religious feelings of any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs |
| 300. | Disturbing Religious assembly |
| 301. | Trespassing on burial places, etc |
| 302. | Uttering words, etc., with deliberate intent to wound religious feelings of any person |
| Chapter XVII | Of Offences Against Property |
| 303. | Theft |
| 304. | Snatching |
| 305. | Theft in a dwelling house, or means of transportation or place of worship, etc |
| 306. | Theft by clerk or servant of property in possession of master |
| 307. | Theft after preparation made for causing death, hurt or restraint in order to committing of theft |
| 308. | Extortion |
| 309. | Robbery |
| 310. | Dacoity |
| 311. | Robbery, or dacoity, with attempt to cause death or grievous hurt |
| 312. | Attempt to Commit robbery or dacoity when armed with deadly weapon |
| 313. | Punishment for belonging to gang of robbers, etc |
| 314. | Dishonest Misappropriation of property |
| 315. | Dishonest Misappropriation of property possessed by deceased person at the time of his death |
| 316. | Criminal breach of trust |
| 317. | Stolen property |
| 318. | Cheating |
| 319. | Cheating by personation |
| 320. | Dishonest or Fraudulent removal or concealment of property to prevent distribution among creditors |
| 321. | Dishonestly or Fraudulently preventing debt being available for creditors |
| 322. | Dishonest or Fraudulent execution of deed of transfer containing false statement of consideration |
| 323. | Dishonest or Fraudulent removal or concealment of property |
| 324. | Mischief |
| 325. | Mischief by killing or maiming animal |
| 326. | Mischief by injury, inundation, fire or explosive substance, etc |
| 327. | Mischief with intent to destroy or make unsafe a rail, aircraft, decked vessel or one of twenty tons burden |
| 328. | Punishment for Intentionally running vessel aground or ashore with intent to commit theft, etc |
| 329. | Criminal trespass and house-trespass |
| 330. | House-trespass and housebreaking |
| 331. | Punishment for house-trespass or housebreaking |
| 332. | House-trespass in order to commit offence |
| 333. | House-trespass After preparation for hurt, assault or wrongful restraint |
| 334. | Dishonestly breaking open receptacle containing property |
| Chapter XVIII | Of Offences Relating to Documents and to Property Marks |
| 335. | Making a false document |
| 336. | Forgery |
| 337. | Forgery of record of Court or of public register, etc |
| 338. | Forgery of Valuable security, will, etc |
| 339. | Having possession of document described in section 337 or section 338, knowing it to be forged and intending to use it as genuine |
| 340. | Forged document or electronic record and using it as genuine |
| 341. | Making or Possessing counterfeit seal, etc., with intent to commit forgery punishable under section 338 |
| 342. | Counterfeiting device or mark used for authenticating documents described in section 338, or possessing counterfeit marked material |
| 343. | Fraudulent cancellation, destruction, etc., of will, authority to adopt, or valuable security |
| 344. | Falsification of accounts |
| 345. | Property mark |
| 346. | Tampering with property mark with intent to cause injury |
| 347. | Counterfeiting a property mark |
| 348. | Making or possession of any instrument for counterfeiting a property mark |
| 349. | Selling goods marked with a counterfeit property mark |
| 350. | Making a false mark upon any receptacle containing goods |
| Chapter XIX | Of Criminal Intimidation, Insult, Annoyance, Defamation, Etc |
| 351. | Criminal intimidation |
| 352. | Intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace |
| 353. | Statements conducing to public mischief |
| 354. | Act caused by inducing person to believe that he will be rendered an object of Divine displeasure |
| 355. | Misconduct in public by a drunken person |
| 356. | Defamation |
| 357. | Breach of contract to attend on and supply wants of helpless person |
| Chapter XX | Repeal and Savings |
| 358. | Repeal and savings |
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