IPC 376A: Section 376A of the Indian Penal Code

December 15, 2014

Punishment for causing death or resulting in persistent vegetative state of victim1

Whoever, commits an offence punishable under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) of section 376 and in the course of such commission inflicts an injury which causes the death of the woman or causes the woman to be in a persistent vegetative state, shall be punished with rigorous imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than twenty years, but which may extend to imprisonment for life, which shall mean imprisonment for the remainder of that person’s natural life, or with death.

1 Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 2013

IPC 492: Section 492 of the Indian Penal Code

December 15, 2014

(Repealed) Breach of contract to serve at distant place to which servant is conveyed at master’s expense.

Rep. by the Workmen’ Breach of Contract (Repealing) Act, 1925 (3 of 1925), s. 2 and Sch.

IPC 491: Section 491 of the Indian Penal Code

December 15, 2014

Breach of contract to attend on and supply wants of helpless person

Whoever, being bound by a lawful contract to attend on or to supply the wants of any person who, by reason of youth, or of unsoundness of mind, or of a disease or bodily weakness, is helpless or incapable of providing for his own safety or of supplying his own wants, voluntarily omits so to do, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three months, or with fine which may extend to two hundred rupees, or with both.

IPC 376: Section 376 of the Indian Penal Code

December 15, 2014

Punishment for rape [1]

  1. Whoever, except in the cases provided for in sub-section (2), commits rape, shall be punished with rigorous imprisonment of either description for a term which shall not be less than seven years, but which may extend to imprisonment for life, and shall also be liable to fine.
  2. Whoever—
    1. being a police officer, commits rape,
      1. within the limits of the police station to which such police officer is appointed; or
      2. in the premises of any station house; or
      3. on a woman in such police officer’s custody or in the custody of a police officer subordinate to such police officer; or
    2. being a public servant, commits rape on a woman in such public servant’s custody or in the custody of a public servant subordinate to such public servant; or
    3. being a member of the armed forces deployed in an area by the Central or a State Government commits rape in such area; or
    4. being on the management or on the staff of a jail, remand home or other place of custody established by or under any law for the time being in force or of a women’s or children’s institution, commits rape on any inmate of such jail, remand home, place or institution; or
    5. being on the management or on the staff of a hospital, commits rape on a woman in that hospital; or
    6. being a relative, guardian or teacher of, or a person in a position of trust or authority towards the woman, commits rape on such woman; or
    7. commits rape during communal or sectarian violence; or
    8. commits rape on a woman knowing her to be pregnant; or
    9. commits rape on a woman when she is under sixteen years of age; or
    10. commits rape, on a woman incapable of giving consent; or
    11. being in a position of control or dominance over a woman, commits rape on such woman; or
    12. commits rape on a woman suffering from mental or physical disability; or
    13. while committing rape causes grievous bodily harm or maims or disfigures or endangers the life of a woman; or
    14. commits rape repeatedly on the same woman,

shall be punished with rigorous imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than ten years, but which may extend to imprisonment for life, which shall mean imprisonment for the remainder of that person’s natural life, and shall also be liable to fine.

Explanations

  1. For the purposes of this sub-section-
    1. “armed forces” means the naval, military and air forces and includes any member of the Armed Forces constituted under any Law for the time being in force, including the paramilitary forces and any auxiliary forces that are under the control of the Central Government, or the State Government;
    2. “hospital” means the precincts of the hospital and includes the precincts of any institution for the reception and treatment of persons during convalescence or of persons requiring medical attention or rehabilitation;
    3. “police officer” shall have the same meaning as assigned to the expression “police” under the Police Act, 1861;
    4. “women’s or children’s institution” means an institution, whether called an orphanage or a home for neglected women or children or a widow’s home or an institution called by any other name, which is established and maintained for the reception and care of women or children.

1 Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 2013

IPC 489E: Section 489E of the Indian Penal Code

December 15, 2014

Making or using documents resembling currency-notes or bank-notes

  1. Whoever makes, or causes to be made, or uses for any purpose whatsoever, or delivers to any person, any document purporting to be, or in any way resembling, or so nearly resembling as to be calculated to deceive, any currency-note or bank-note shall be punished with fine which may extend to one hundred rupees.
  2. If any person, whose name appears on a document the making of which is an offence under sub-section (1), refuses, without lawful excuse, to disclose to a police-officer on being so required the name and address of the person by whom it was printed or otherwise made, he shall be punished with fine which may extend to two hundred rupees.
  3. Where the name of any person appears on any document in respect of which any person is charged with an offence under sub-section (1) or on any other document used or distributed in connection with that document it may, until the contrary is proved, be presumed that that person caused the document to be made.

IPC 489D: Section 489D of the Indian Penal Code

December 15, 2014

Making or possessing instruments or materials for forging or counterfeiting currency notes or bank-notes

Whoever makes, or performs any part of the process of making, or buys of sells or disposes of, or has in his possession, any machinery, instrument of material for the purpose of being used, or knowing or having reason to believe that it is intended to be used, for forging or counterfeiting any currency-note or bank-note, shall be punished with 1 *imprisonment for life, or with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.

IPC 489C: Section 489C of the Indian Penal Code

December 15, 2014

Possession of forged or counterfeit currency-notes or bank-notes

Whoever has in his possession any forged or counterfeit currency-note or bank-note, knowing or having reason to believe the same to be forged or counterfeit and intending to use the same as genuine or that it may be used as genuine, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, or with fine, or with both.

IPC 375: Section 375 of the Indian Penal Code

December 15, 2014

Rape1

A man is said to commit “rape” if he—
       
  1. penetrates his penis, to any extent, into the vagina, mouth, urethra or anus of a woman or makes her to do so with him or any other person; or

    2.    

  2. inserts, to any extent, any object or a part of the body, not being the penis, into the vagina, the urethra or anus of a woman or makes her to do so with him or any other person; or

    3.    

  3. manipulates any part of the body of a woman so as to cause penetration into the vagina, urethra, anus or any part of body of such woman or makes her to do so with him or any other person; or

    4.    

  4. applies his mouth to the vagina, anus, urethra of a woman or makes her to do so with him or any other person, under the circumstances falling under any of the following seven descriptions:
       
  1. Against her will.

    2.    

  2. Without her consent.

    3.    

  3. With her consent, when her consent has been obtained by putting her or any person in whom she is interested, in fear of death or of hurt.

    4.    

  4. With her consent, when the man knows that he is not her husband and that her consent is given because she believes that he is another man to whom she is or believes herself to be lawfully married.

    5.    

  5. With her consent when, at the time of giving such consent, by reason of unsoundness of mind or intoxication or the administration by him personally or through another of any stupefying or unwholesome Substance, she is unable to understand the nature and consequences of that to which she gives consent.

    6.    

  6. With or without her consent, when she is under eighteen years of age.

    7.    

  7. When she is unable to communicate consent.

Explanations

       
  1. For the purposes of this section, “vagina” shall also include labia majora.

    2.    

  2. Consent means an unequivocal voluntary agreement when the woman by words, gestures or any form of verbal or non-verbal communication, communicates willingness to participate in the specific sexual act;

Provided that a woman who does not physically resist to the act of penetration shall not by the reason only of that fact, be regarded as consenting to the sexual activity.Exceptions

       
  1. A medical procedure or intervention shall not constitute rape.

    2.    

  2. Sexual intercourse or sexual acts by a man with his own wife, the wife not being under fifteen years of age, is not rape.

1 Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 2013

IPC 489B: Section 489B of the Indian Penal Code

December 15, 2014

Using as genuine, forged or counterfeit currency-notes or bank-notes

Whoever sells to, or buys or receives from, any other person, or otherwise traffics in or uses as genuine, any forged or counterfeit currency-note or bank-note, knowing or having reason to believe the same to be forged or counterfeit, shall be punished with 2 *imprisonment for life, or with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.

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