CHAPTER 7:01
PENAL CODE
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
SECTION
PART I
GENERAL PROVISIONS
CHAPTER I
PRELIMINARY
1. Short title
2. Savings of certain laws
CHAPTER II
INTERPRETATION
3. General rule of construction of the Code
4. Interpretation
CHAPTER III
TERRITORIAL APPLICATION OF THIS CODE
5. Offence committed partly within and partly beyond the jurisdiction
6. Jurisdiction and procedure in respect of certain offences committed in countries outside the Republic
CHAPTER IV
GENERAL RULES AS TO CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY
7. Ignorance of law
8. Bona fide claim of right
9. Intention: motive
10. Mistake of fact
11. Presumption of sanity
12. Insanity
13. Intoxication
14. Immature age
15. Judicial officers
16. Compulsion
17. Defence of person or property
18. Use of force in effecting arrest
19. Compulsion by spouse
20. Person not to be punished twice for the same offence
CHAPTER V
PARTIES TO OFFENCES
21. Principal offenders
22. Offences committed by joint offenders in prosecution of common purpose
23. Counselling another to commit an offence
24. Offences by corporations, societies, etc.
CHAPTER VI
PUNISHMENTS
25. Different kinds of punishments
26. Sentence of death
27. Imprisonment
28A. Short sentences of imprisonment
29. Fines
30. Forfeiture
31. Suspension or forfeiture of right to carry on business
32. Compensation
33. Costs
34. General punishment for misdemeanors
35. Sentences cumulative unless otherwise ordered
36. Escaped convicts to serve unexpired sentences when recaptured
PART II
CRIMES
Division I
Offences Against Public Order
CHAPTER VII
TREASON AND OTHER OFFENCES AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT’S AUTHORITY
38. Treason
39. Concealment of treason
40. Promoting war, etc., amongst groups
41. Inciting to mutiny
42. Aiding soldiers or policemen in acts of mutiny
43. Inducing soldiers or policemen to desert
44. Aiding prisoners of war to escape
45. Definitions
54. Unlawful oaths to commit capital offences
55. Other unlawful oaths to commit offences
56. Compelling another person to take an oath
57. Compulsion, how far a defence
58. Person present deemed to consent to administering of oath unless he reports to authorities
59. Unlawful drilling
60. Publication of false news likely to cause fear and alarm to the public
CHAPTER VIII
OFFENCES AFFECTING RELATIONS WITH FOREIGN STATES AND EXTERNAL TRANQUILLITY
61. Defamation of foreign dignitaries
62. Foreign enlistment
63. Piracy
CHAPTER IX
UNLAWFUL ASSEMBLIES, RIOTS AND OTHER OFFENCES AGAINST PUBLIC TRANQUILLITY
64. Definition of society and unlawful society
65. Managing unlawful society
66. Being member of unlawful society
67. Prosecutions under sections 65 and 66
68. Power of entry, arrest, search, etc.
69. Disposal of property of an unlawful society
70. Forfeiture of insignia, etc.
71. Unlawful assembly
Riot
72. Punishment of unlawful assembly
73. Punishment of riot
74. Making proclamation for rioters to disperse
75. Dispersion of rioters after proclamation made
76. Rioting after proclamation
77. Preventing or obstructing the making of proclamation
78. Rioters demolishing buildings, etc.
79. Rioters injuring buildings, machinery, etc.
80. Riotously preventing the sailing of ship
81. Prohibition of carrying offensive weapons without lawful authority or reasonable excuse
82. Forcible entry
83. Forcible detainer
84. Fighting in public
85. Challenge to fight a duel
86. Threatening violence
87. Proposing violence at assemblies
88. Intimidation
89. Assembling for the purpose of smuggling
Division II
Offences Against the Administration of Lawful Authority
CHAPTER X
CORRUPTION AND THE ABUSE OF OFFICE
90. Official corruption
91. Extortion by public officers
92. Public officers receiving property to show favour
93. Officers charged with administration of property of a special character or with special duties
94. False claims by officials
95. Abuse of office
96. False certificates by public officers
97. Unauthorized administration of oaths
98. False assumption of authority
99. Personating public officers
100. Threat of injury to persons employed in public service
CHAPTER XI
OFFENCES RELATING TO THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE
101. Perjury and subornation of perjury
102. Perjury in written statement
103. False statements by interpreters
104. Punishment of perjury and subornation
105. Fabricating evidence
106. False swearing
107. Deceiving witnesses
108. Destroying evidence
109. Conspiracy to defeat justice and interference with witnesses
110. Compounding…
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