IPC-Indian Penal Code IPC -भारतीय दण्ड संहिता- Chapter 11 to 17– Section 191 to 462

Chapter 11 – False Evidence and Offenses against Public Justice

Section 191 Giving false evidence.
Section 192 Fabricating false evidence.
Section 193 Punishment for false evidence
Section 194 Giving or fabricating false evidence with intent to cause conviction of offense punishable with death.
Section 195 Giving or fabricating false evidence with intent to procure conviction of offense punishable with imprisonment for life or imprisonment
Section 196 Using evidence known to be false
Section 197 Issuing or signing a false certificate
Section 198 Certificate known to be counterfeit, to be used as genuine.
Section 199 False statement made in a declaration liable to be taken as evidence by law.
Section 200 Using as true such declaration knowing it to be false.
Section 201 Destruction of evidence of offence, or giving false information to screen offender.
Section 202 Intentional omission to give information of offense by person bound to give information.
Section 203 Giving false information respecting an offense committed
Section 204 Destruction of any 3[document or electronic record] to prevent its production as evidence
Section 205: False representation for the purpose of any act or proceeding in a suit or prosecution
Section 206 Fraudulent removal or concealment of property to prevent it from being forfeited or seized in execution
Section 207 Fraudulent claim on property to prevent it from being confiscated or seized in execution.
Section 208 Fraudulently tolerating decree for sum not due
Section 209 Dishonestly making a false claim in court
Section 210 Fraudulently obtaining decree for sum not due
Section 211 False charge of an offense with intent to injure.
Section 212 Harboring an offender.
Section 213 Taking gifts, etc., to screen offender from punishment
Section 214 Offering of a gift or restitution of property in consideration of concealment of an offender
Section 215 Taking gifts in aid of recovery of stolen property, etc.
Section 216 Harboring an offender who has escaped from custody or whose apprehension has been ordered.
Section 216A Penalty for harboring robbers or dacoits
Section 216B Definition of compounding in section 212, section 216 and section 216A
Section 217 Disobedience of direction of law by public servant with intent to save person from punishment or forfeiture of any property
Section 218 Fabrication of false record or writing by public servant with intent to save person from punishment or property from forfeiture
Section 219 Corruptly making report, etc., contrary to law in judicial proceedings by public servant Committal for trial or for confinement by person having authority who knows that he is acting contrary to law
Section 221 Intentional omission to apprehend by public servant bound to apprehend
Section 222 Intentional omission to apprehend by public servant bound to apprehend person under sentence or lawfully delivered
Section 223 Tolerating escape from confinement or custody by negligence by public servant.
Section 224: Resistance or obstruction by a person to his being apprehended according to law.
Section 225 Resisting or obstructing the lawful apprehension of another
Section 225A Omission to apprehend or escape by public servant in cases not otherwise provided for
Section 225B Resistance or obstruction to lawful apprehension or escape or release in cases not otherwise provided for
Section 226 Unlawful return from exile.
Section 227 Violation of condition of remission of punishment
Section 228 Intentionally insulting or obstructing a public servant sitting in a judicial proceeding
Section 228A Disclosure of identity of victim of certain offences, etc.
Section 229 Impersonation of juror or assessor.

Chapter 12 – Offenses relating to Coins and Government Stamps

Section 230 definition of coin
Section 231 Counterfeiting coin
Section 232 Counterfeiting Indian coin
Section 233 Making or selling instruments for counterfeiting coins
Section 234 Making or selling instruments for counterfeiting Indian coin
Section 235 Possession of instrument or material for the purpose of using it for counterfeiting coin
Section 236 Abetment of counterfeiting of coin outside India in India
Section 237 Import or export of counterfeit coin
Section 238 Import or export of counterfeit Indian coin
Section 239 Delivery of coin known at the time of possession to be counterfeit
Section 240 Delivery of Indian coin known at the time of possession to be counterfeit
Section 241 Delivery of a coin as genuine which the deliverer did not know at the time when it first came into his possession to be counterfeit
Section 242: Possession of counterfeit coin by person who knew it to be counterfeit when he had it in his possession
Section 243 Possession of Indian coin by person who knew it to be counterfeit when he became possessed of it
Section 244 Causing coin by person employed in Mint to be of a different weight or composition than that prescribed by law
Section 245 Unlawfully taking coin-making equipment from a mint
Section 246 Fraudulently or dishonestly reducing the weight of coin or changing the mixture
Section 247 Fraudulently or dishonestly reducing the weight or altering the mixture of Indian coin
Section 248 Altering the form of a coin with intent that it may pass as a coin of a different kind
Section 249 Altering the appearance of Indian coin with intent that it may pass as coin of a different kind
Section 250 Delivery of coin possessed with the knowledge that it has been altered
Section 251 Delivery of Indian coin possessed with the knowledge that it has been altered
Section 252 Possession of coin by person who knew it to be altered when he became in possession of it
Section 253 Possession of Indian coin by person who knew it to be altered when he became possessed of it
Section 254 Delivery of coin as genuine coin which the deliverer did not know when first in his possession to be altered
Section 255 Counterfeiting official stamp
Section 256 Possession of instrument or material for counterfeiting Government stamp
Section 257 Making or selling instrument for counterfeiting Government stamp
Section 258 Sale of counterfeit Government stamp
Section 259 Possession of counterfeit Government stamp
Section 260 Using a Government stamp as a genuine one, knowing it to be counterfeit
Section 261 Erasing writing from substance bearing Government stamp, or removing stamp from document used for it, with intent to cause loss to Government
Section 262 Use of Government stamp known to have been previously used
Section 263 Removal of the mark denoting the use of a stamp
Section 263A Prohibition of counterfeit stamps

Chapter 13 – Offenses relating to Weights and Measures

Section 264 Fraudulent use of false weighing instruments
Section 265 Fraudulent use of false weight or measure
Section 266 Possession of false weight or measure
Section 267 Making or selling false weight or measure

Chapter 14 – Offenses related to public health, safety, convenience etc.

Section 268 Public nuisance
Section 269 Negligent act likely to spread infection of disease dangerous to life
Section 270 Malicious act likely to spread infection of disease dangerous to life
Section 271 Disobedience to the rule of quarantine
Section 272 Adulteration of food or drink intended for sale.
Section 273 Sale of noxious food or drink
Section 274 Adulteration of drugs
Section 275 Sale of adulterated drugs
Section 276 Sale of drug as a different drug or preparation
Section 277 Fouling water of public water-source or reservoir
Section 278 Making atmosphere noxious to health
Section 279 Rash driving or driving on a public road
Section 280 Rash driving
Section 281 Exhibition of deceptive light, sign or buoy
Section 282 Conveyance of a person by water for hire in a vessel disabled or over-loaded
Section 283 Causing danger or obstruction in a public way or a public way.
Section 284 Negligent conduct in relation to poisonous substance
Section 285 Negligent conduct in relation to fire or any inflammable substance.
Section 286 Negligent conduct with respect to explosive substance
Section 287 Negligent conduct in relation to machinery
Section 288 Negligent conduct in relation to the demolition or repair of any building
Section 289 Negligent conduct in relation to animals.
Section 290 Punishment for public obstruction in matters not otherwise provided for.
section 291 continuation of nuisance after injunction to stop
Section 292 Sale of obscene books etc.
Section 292A Printing obscene material for the purpose of blackmail
Section 293 Sale, etc., of obscene articles to a young person
section 294 obscene acts and songs
Section 294A Keeping lottery office

Chapter 15 – Offenses Related to Religion

Section 295: Injuring or defiling a place of worship with intent to insult the religion of any class.
Section 296 Disturbing religious assembly
Section 297 Trespassing on cemeteries, etc.
Section 298 Uttering words with deliberate intention to hurt religious feelings, etc.

Chapter 16 – Offenses affecting the human body

Section 299 culpable homicide
section 300 murder
Section 301 Culpable homicide by causing the death of a person other than the person whose death was intended to be caused.
Section 302 Punishment for murder
Section 303 Punishment for murder by person sentenced to imprisonment for life.
Section 304 Punishment for culpable homicide not amounting to murder
Causing death by negligence section 304
Section 304B dowry death
Section 305 Abetment of suicide of child or lunatic.
Section 306 Abetment of suicide
Section 307 attempt to murder
Section 308 Attempt to commit culpable homicide
Section 309 Attempt to commit suicide.
Section 310 thugs.
Section 311 Punishment for cheating.
Section 312 Causing miscarriage.
Section 313 Causing abortion without the consent of the woman.
Section 314 Death caused by act done with intent to cause miscarriage.
Section 315: Act done with intent to prevent child being born alive or to cause it to die after birth.
Section 316 Causing the death of a living unborn child by an act amounting to culpable homicide.
Section 317 Abandonment and abandonment of child under twelve years of age by the father or mother or person having care of the child.
Section 318 Concealment of birth by secret disposal of dead body
Section 319 Causing hurt.
Section 320 Grievous hurt.
Section 321 Voluntarily causing hurt
Section 322 Voluntarily causing grievous hurt
Section 323 Punishment for voluntarily causing hurt, it is a non-cognizable offense and is bailable by the police.
Section 324 Voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous arms or means
Section 325 Punishment for voluntarily causing grievous hurt
Section 326 Voluntarily causing grievous hurt by dangerous weapons or means.
Section 326A acid attack
Section 326B Attempt to commit acid attack
Section 327 Voluntarily causing hurt in order to extort property or valuable security or to compel the doing of an illegal act.
Section 328 Causing hurt by poison, etc., with intent to commit an offence.
Section 329 Voluntarily causing grievous hurt in order to extort property or to compel the doing of an illegal act
Section 330 Voluntarily causing hurt in order to make confession extortion or to compel restitution of property.
Section 331 Voluntarily causing grievous hurt to extort confession or to compel restitution of property
Section 332 Voluntarily causing hurt to deter public servant from his duty
Section 333 Voluntarily causing grievous hurt to deter public servant from his duty.
Section 334 Voluntarily causing hurt on provocation
Section 335 Voluntarily causing grievous hurt on provocation
Section 336 Act endangering life or personal safety of others.
Section 337 Causing hurt by any act which endangers human life or personal safety
Section 338 Causing grievous hurt by any act which endangers human life or personal safety
Section 339 Wrongful restraint.
Section 340 Wrongful confinement or wrongful confinement.
Section 341 Punishment for wrongful restraint
Section 342 Punishment for wrongfully restraining.
Section 343 Wrongful confinement for three or more days.
Section 344 Wrongful confinement for ten days or more.
Section 345 Wrongful confinement of a person for whose release a writ has been issued
Section 346 Wrongful confinement in secret place.
Section 347 Wrongful confinement in order to extort property or to compel the doing of an illegal act.
Section 348 Wrongful confinement to extort confession or to compel restitution of property
Section 349 force.
section 350 criminal force
Section 351 assault.
Section 352 Punishment for assault or use of criminal force without grave provocation
Section 353 Assault or use of criminal force to intimidate public servant in the discharge of his duty
Section 354 Assault or use of criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty
Section 354A Sexual Harassment
Section 354B Act with intent to disrobe a woman
section 354c eavesdropping
section 354 d chase
Section 355 Assault or use of criminal force to any person with intent to dishonor him, otherwise than on grave provocation
Section 356: Attempt to commit theft of property carried by a person by assault or criminal force.
Section 357 Assault or use of criminal force in attempt to wrongfully confine any person.
Section 358 Assault or use of criminal force on grave provocation
section 359 kidnapping
Section 360 Abduction from India.
Section 361 Abduction from lawful guardianship
Section 362 Kidnapping.
Section 363 Punishment for kidnapping
Section 363A Disabling kidnapping of minor for purposes of begging
Section 364 Kidnapping or abducting in order to commit murder.
Section 364A Kidnapping for ransom, etc.
Section 365 Kidnapping or abducting with intent to secretly and unreasonably confine/imprison any person.
Section 366 Kidnapping, abducting or producing a woman to compel her to marry, etc.

Section 366A Procuring a minor girl
Section 366B Importing a girl child from abroad
Section 367 Kidnapping or abducting with intent to subject person to grievous hurt, servitude, etc.
Section 368 Wrongfully concealing or imprisoning abducted or abducted person.
Section 369 Kidnapping or abducting from the person of a child under ten years of age with intent to steal from her
Section 370 Human Trafficking Buying or selling of any person as a slave.
Section 371 Habitual treatment of slaves.
Section 372 Selling a minor for the purpose of prostitution, etc.
Section 373 Procuring a minor for the purpose of prostitution, etc.
Section 374 Unlawful forced labour.
section 375 rape
Section 376 Punishment for rape
Section 376A Sexual intercourse by a man with his wife while being separated
Section 376B Intercourse by public servant with woman in his custody
Section 376C Sexual intercourse by the superintendent of a jail, remand home, etc.
Section 376D Sexual intercourse by any member of the management or staff, etc., of a hospital with a woman in that hospital
Section 376 (E) punishment for repeat offenders
Section 377 Offense against nature

Chapter 17 – Offenses Against Property

section 378 theft
Section 379 Punishment for theft
Section 380 Theft in residence etc.
Section 381 Theft of property in master’s possession by clerk or servant.
Section 382 Theft after making preparation for causing death, injury or restraint in order to commit theft.
Section 383 Extortion / Extortion
Section 384 Punishment for extortion.
Section 385 Putting a person in fear of injury for the purpose of extortion.
Section 386 Extortion by putting a person in fear of death or grievous hurt.
Section 387 Putting a person in fear of death or grievous hurt in order to commit extortion.
Section 388 Extortion by threat of accusation of an offense punishable with death or imprisonment for life, etc.
Section 389 Putting a person in fear of being accused of an offense in order to commit extortion.
section 390 loot
section 391 dacoity
Section 392 Punishment for robbery
Section 393 Attempt to commit robbery
Section 394 Voluntarily causing hurt in committing robbery
section 395 punishment for dacoity
Section 396 Dacoity including murder.
Section 397 Robbery or dacoity with attempt to cause death or grievous hurt.
Section 398: Attempt to commit robbery or dacoity when armed with a deadly weapon.
Section 399 Making preparation to commit dacoity.
Section 400 Punishment for belonging to a gang of dacoits
Section 401 Punishment for belonging to a gang of thieves.
Section 402 Assembling for the purpose of committing dacoity.
Section 403: Dishonest misappropriation/misappropriation of property.
Section 404 Dishonest misappropriation/misappropriation of property in the possession of a deceased person at the time of his death.
Section 405 Criminal breach of trust.
Section 406 Criminal breach of trust
Section 407 Criminal breach of trust by caretaker, etc.
Section 408 Criminal breach of trust by clerk or servant
Section 409 Criminal breach of trust by public servant or bank employee, merchant or agent
section 410 stolen property
Section 411 Dishonestly receiving stolen property
Section 412 Dishonestly receiving property stolen in the commission of dacoity.
Section 413 Habitual dealing in stolen property.
Section 414 Aiding in concealment of stolen property.
section 415 cheating
Section 416 Cheating by impersonation
Section 417 Punishment for cheating.
Section 418 Cheating with knowledge that wrongful loss may be caused to person whose interest the offender is bound to protect
Section 419 Punishment for cheating by personation.
Section 420 Cheating and dishonestly inducing to give valuable thing/property
Section 421 Dishonest or fraudulent removal or concealment of property to prevent distribution among creditors
Section 422 Dishonestly or fraudulently preventing debt from being available to creditors
Section 423 Dishonestly or fraudulently execution of deed of transfer containing false statement as to consideration
Section 424 Dishonestly or fraudulently removing or concealing property
Section 425 Mischief / Mischief.
Section 426 Punishment for Mischief
Section 427 Mischief causing damage to fifty rupees
Section 428 Mischief by killing or maiming an animal of the value of ten rupees.
Section 429 Mischief by killing or maiming, etc., cattle, etc., of any value or any animal of the value of fifty rupees.
Section 430 Mischief by damaging irrigation works or by wrongfully diverting water
Section 431 Mischief by damaging public road, bridge, river or watercourse
Section 432 Mischief by causing injurious inundation or obstruction of public drainage
Section 433 Mischief by destroying, removing or rendering less useful any lighthouse or sea-mark
Section 434 Mischief by destroying or removing, etc., a land mark put up by a public authority
Section 435 Mischief by fire or explosive substance with intent to cause damage to one hundred rupees or (in the case of agricultural produce) ten rupees.
Section 436 Mischief by fire or explosive substance with intent to destroy house, etc.
Section 437 Mischief with intent to destroy or render unsafe a vessel with a deck or twenty tons burden.
Section 438 Punishment for mischief by fire or explosive substance mentioned in section 437.
Section 439 Punishment for intentionally running a vessel aground or ashore with intent to commit theft, etc.
Section 440: Mischief done after preparation for causing death or hurt
Section 441 Criminal trespass.
Section 442 house-trespass
Section 443 Lurking house-trespass
Section 444 Lurking house-trespass by night
Section 445. House-breaking.
Section 446 House-breaking at night
Section 447 Punishment for criminal trespass.
Section 448 Punishment for house-trespass.
Section 449 House-trespass in order to prevent offense punishable with death
Section 450. House-trespass in order to commit an offense punishable with imprisonment for life.
Section 451. House-trespass in order to commit an offense punishable with imprisonment.
Section 452 House-trespass, preparation for an assault to cause hurt, assault or wrongful coercion
Section 453 Punishment for lurking house-trespass or house-breaking
Section 454 Lurking house-trespass or house-breaking in order to commit an offense punishable with imprisonment.
Section 455 Lurking house-trespass or house-breaking after preparation for hurt, assault or wrongful restraint

Section 456 Punishment for lurking house-trespass or house-breaking by night.

Section 458. House-trespass by night with preparation for injury, assault or wrongful restraint.
Section 459 Grievous hurt caused in the commission of lurking house-trespass or house-breaking
Section 460 All persons jointly concerned in lurking house-trespass or house-breaking by night are punishable when death or grievous hurt is caused by one of them
IPC 461 Dishonestly breaking open receptacle containing property
Section 462 Punishment for same offense when committed by person entrusted with custody.