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INDIAN PENAL CODE

IPC Sections - Indian Penal Code 1860 Sections

The Indian Penal Code (IPC) is the principal criminal code of India that defines crimes and provides punishments for almost all kinds of criminal and actionable wrongs. The IPC extends to the whole of India except the states of Jammu and Kashmir and is an extensive law that covers all the substantive aspects of criminal law from nuisance at public places to murder, rape, dacoity, etc.

The IPC came into existence in 1860 on recommendations of the first law commission of India established in 1834 under the Charter Act of 1833. The Code was made effective during the British rule in January 1, 1862 and was applicable to the whole of the then British India except the princely states as they had their own courts and legal systems till 1940s. 
The Code was later adopted by the Independent India and Pakistan after partition. The Ranbir Penal Code applicable in Jammu and Kashmir is also based on this Code. It is applicable to all the citizens of India. The IPC has been amended numerous times since then and is now supplemented by various other criminal provisions. At present, the IPC is divided into 23 chapters and contains 511 sections in total.

Following is the list of bailalble offences under the Indian Penal Code:

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  1. Section 140- Wearing soldier’s garb, sailor, airman

  2. Section 144- Punishment for unlawful assembly

  3. Section 154- Owner or occupier of land on which unlawful assembly is held

  4. Section 158- Owner or occupier land on which unlawful assembly is held

  5. Section 166- Public Servant disobeying direction under law

  6. Section 167- Public servant framing incorrect document

  7. Section 177- Furnishing false information

  8. Section 181- False statement on oath to public servants

  9. Section 186- Disobedience to order duty promulgated by public servant

  10. Section 189- Threat of injury to public servant

  11. Section 191- Giving false evidence

  12. Section 195A- Threatening any person to give false evidence

  13. Section 203- Giving false information with respect to an offence

  14. Section 210- Fraudulently making false claim in court

  15. Section 223- Escape from confinement or custody negligently suffered by public servant

  16. Section 213- Taking gift, to screen an offender from punishment

  17. Section 228- Intentionally insult or interruption to public servant sitting in judicial proceedings

  18. Section 264- Fraudulent use or false instrument for weighing

  19. Section 269- Negligent act likely to spread infectious disease dangerous to life

  20. Section 279- Rash driving or driving on a public vehicle

  21. Section 283- Danger or obstruction in public way or line of navigation

  22. Section 292- Sale of obscene book

  23. Section 297- Trespassing on burial places

  24. Section 304A- Punishment for causing death by negligence

  25. Section 309- Attempt to commit suicide

  26. Section 318- Concealment of birth by secret disposal of body

  27. Section 323- Causing hurt

  28. Section 349- Using force

  29. Section 354D- Stalking

  30. Section 363- Punishment for Kidnapping

  31. Section 417- Punishment for Cheating

  32. Section 426- Punishment for Mischief

  33. Section 447- Punishment for Criminal trespass

  34. Section 465- Forgery

  35. Section 477A- Falsification of accounts

  36. Section 489C- Possession of forged currency notes or banknotes

  37. Section 494- Marrying again during lifetime of husband or wife

  38. Section 496- Marriage ceremony fraudulently gone through without lawful marriage

  39. Section 498- Enticing or taking away or detaining with criminal intent

  40. Section 500- Punishment for Defamation

  41. Section 506- Criminal intimidation

  42. Section 509- Word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman

  43. Section 510- Misconduct in public by drunken person

Following is the list of non-bailable offences under the Indian Penal Code:

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  1. Section 121- Waging or attempting to wage war, or abetting the waging of war, against the Government of India

  2. Section 124A- Sedition

  3. Section 131- Abetting mutiny or attempting to seduce a soldier, sailor or airman

  4. Section 172 Absconding to avoid service of summons

  5. Section 232- Counterfeiting Indian coin

  6. Section 238- Import or export of counterfeiting Indian coin

  7. Section 246- Fraudulently diminishing weight of coin

  8. Section 255- Counterfeiting of government stamp

  9. Section 274- Adulteration of drug

  10. Section 295A- Deliberate and ,malicious act intended to outrage religious feelings of any class, by insulting religious beliefs

  11. Section 302- Punishment for murder

  12. Section 304- Punishment for Culpable homicide not amounting to murder

  13. Section 304B- Dowry death

  14. Section 306- Abetment of suicide

  15. Section 307- Attempt to murder

  16. Section 308- Attempt to commit culpable homicide

  17. Section 369- Abduction of child under the age of 10 years

  18. Section 370- Trafficking of person

  19. Section 376- Punishment for Rape

  20. Section 376D- Gang rape

  21. Section 377- Unnatural offence

  22. Section 379- Punishment for theft

  23. Section 384- Punishment for extortion

  24. Section 392- Punishment for robbery

  25. Section 395- Punishment for dacoity

  26. Section 406- Punishment for criminal breach of trust

  27. Section 411- Dishonestly receiving stolen property

  28. Section 420- cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property

  29. Section 489A- Counterfeiting currency notes or bank notes

  30. Section 498A- Husband or relatives of husband of a woman subjecting her to cruelty

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