INDIAN PENAL CODE

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:

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

Section 144- Punishment for unlawful assembly

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

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

Section 166- Public Servant disobeying direction under law

Section 167- Public servant framing incorrect document

Section 177- Furnishing false information

Section 181- False statement on oath to public servants

Section 186- Disobedience to order duty promulgated by public servant

Section 189- Threat of injury to public servant

Section 191- Giving false evidence

Section 195A- Threatening any person to give false evidence

Section 203- Giving false information with respect to an offence

Section 210- Fraudulently making false claim in court

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

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

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

Section 264- Fraudulent use or false instrument for weighing

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

Section 279- Rash driving or driving on a public vehicle

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

Section 292- Sale of obscene book

Section 297- Trespassing on burial places

Section 304A- Punishment for causing death by negligence

Section 309- Attempt to commit suicide

Section 318- Concealment of birth by secret disposal of body

Section 323- Causing hurt

Section 349- Using force

Section 354D- Stalking

Section 363- Punishment for Kidnapping

Section 417- Punishment for Cheating

Section 426- Punishment for Mischief

Section 447- Punishment for Criminal trespass

Section 465- Forgery

Section 477A- Falsification of accounts

Section 489C- Possession of forged currency notes or banknotes

Section 494- Marrying again during lifetime of husband or wife

Section 496- Marriage ceremony fraudulently gone through without lawful marriage

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

Section 500- Punishment for Defamation

Section 506- Criminal intimidation

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

Section 510- Misconduct in public by drunken person

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

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

Section 124A- Sedition

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

Section 172 Absconding to avoid service of summons

Section 232- Counterfeiting Indian coin

Section 238- Import or export of counterfeiting Indian coin

Section 246- Fraudulently diminishing weight of coin

Section 255- Counterfeiting of government stamp

Section 274- Adulteration of drug

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

Section 302- Punishment for murder

Section 304- Punishment for Culpable homicide not amounting to murder

Section 304B- Dowry death

Section 306- Abetment of suicide

Section 307- Attempt to murder

Section 308- Attempt to commit culpable homicide

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

Section 370- Trafficking of person

Section 376- Punishment for Rape

Section 376D - Gang rape

Section 377- Unnatural offence

Section 379- Punishment for theft

Section 384- Punishment for extortion

Section 392- Punishment for robbery

Section 395- Punishment for dacoity

Section 406- Punishment for criminal breach of trust

Section 411- Dishonestly receiving stolen property

Section 420- cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property

Section 489A- Counterfeiting currency notes or bank notes

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