Indian Penal Code 1860 Section 85 : Act of a person incapable of judgement by reason of intoxication caused against his will: (See section 23 of BNS 2023) Nothing is an offence which is done by a person who, at the time of doing it,…
Indian Penal Code 1860 Section 84 : Act of a person of unsound mind: (See section 22 of BNS 2023) Nothing is an offence which is done by a person who, at the time of doing it, by reason of unsoundness of mind, is incapable…
Indian Penal Code 1860 Section 83 : Act of a child above seven and under twelve of immature understanding: (See section 21 of BNS 2023) Nothing is an offence which is done by a child above seven years of age and under twelve, who has…
Indian Penal Code 1860 Section 82 : Act of a child under seven years of age: (See section 20 of BNS 2023) Nothing is an offence which is done by a child under seven years of age.
Indian Penal Code 1860 Section 81 : Act likely to cause harm, but done without criminal intent, and to prevent other harm: (See section 19 of BNS 2023) Nothing is an offence merely by reason of its being done with the knowledge that it is…
Indian Penal Code 1860 Section 80 : Accident in doing a lawful act: (See section 18 of BNS 2023) Nothing is an offence which is done by accident or misfortune, and without any criminal intention or knowledge in the doing of a lawful act in…
Indian Penal Code 1860 Section 79 : Act done by a person justified, or by mistake off act believing himself justified, by law: (See section 17 of BNS 2023) Nothing is an offence which is done by any person who is justified by law, or…
Indian Penal Code 1860 Section 78 : Act done pursuant to the judgement or order of Court: (See section 16 of BNS 2023) Nothing which is done in pursuance of, or which is warranted by the judgement or order of, a Court of Justice, if…
Indian Penal Code 1860 Section 77 : Act of Judge when acting judicially: (See section 15 of BNS 2023) Nothing is an offence which is done by a Judge when acting judicially in the exercise of any power which is, or which in good faith…
Indian Penal Code 1860 Chapter IV ( Section 76 to 106 ) : General Exceptions : Section 76 : Act done by a person bound, or by mistake off act believing himself bound, by law: (See section 14 of BNS 2023) Nothing is an offence…
Indian Penal Code 1860 Section 75 : 1.[Enhanced punishment for certain offences under Chapter XII or Chapter XVII after previous conviction: (See section 13 of BNS 2023) Whoever, having been convicted, - (a) by a Court in 2.[India], of an offence punishable under Chapter XII…
Indian Penal Code 1860 Section 74 : Limit of solitary confinement: (See section 12 of BNS 2023) In executing a sentence of solitary confinement, such confinement shall in no case exceed fourteen days at a time, with intervals between the periods of solitary confinement of…
Indian Penal Code 1860 Section 73 : Solitary confinement: (See section 11 of BNS 2023) Whenever any person is convicted of an offence for which under this Code the Court has power to sentence him to rigorous imprisonment, the Court may, by its sentence, order…
Indian Penal Code 1860 Section 72 : Punishment of person guilty of one of several offences, the judgement stating that it is doubtful of which: (See section 10 of BNS 2023) In all cases in which judgement is given that a person is guilty of…
Indian Penal Code 1860 Section 71 : Limit of punishment of offence made up of several offences: (See section 9 of BNS 2023) Where anything which is an offence is made up of parts, any of which parts is itself an offence, the offender shall…
Indian Penal Code 1860 Section 63 : Amount of fine: (See section 8 of BNS 2023) Where no sum is expressed to which a fine may extend, the amount of fine to which the offender is liable is unlimited, but shall not be excessive. Section…
Indian Penal Code 1860 Section 60 : Sentence may be (in certain cases of imprisonment) wholly or partly rigorous or simple: (See section 7 of BNS 2023) In every case in which an offender is punishable with imprisonment which may be of either description, it…
Indian Penal Code 1860 Section 57 : Fractions of terms of punishment: (See section 6 of BNS 2023) In calculating fractions of terms of punishment, 1.[imprisonment] for life shall be reckoned as equivalent to 1.[imprisonment] for twenty years. --------- 1. Subs. by Act 26 of…
Indian Penal Code 1860 Section 54 : Commutation of sentence of death : (See section 5 of BNS 2023) In every case in which sentence of death shall have been passed, 1.[the appropriate Government] may, without the consent of the offender, commute the punishment for…
Indian Penal Code 1860 Section 53A : 1.[Construction of reference to transportation : (1) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (2) and sub-section (3), any reference to transportation for life in any other law for the time being in force or in any instrument or…