Classification of Offences
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| Section | Offence | Punishment | Cognizable or non-cognizable | Bailable or non-bailable | By what court triable |
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CHAPTER XV - OFFENCES RELATING TO RELIGION | |||||
| 295 | Destroying, damaging or defiling a place of worship or sacred object with intent to insult the religion of any class of persons. | Imprisonment for 2 years, or fine, or both. | Cognizable | Non-bailable | Any Magistrate. |
| 295 A | Maliciously insulting the religion or the religious beliefs of any class. | Imprisonment for 2 years, or fine, or both. | Ditto | Ditto | Magistrate of the first class. |
| 296 | Causing a disturbance to an assembly engaged in religious worship. | Imprisonment for 1 year, or fine, or both. | Ditto | Bailable | Any Magistrate. |
| 297 | Trespassing in place of worship or sepulcher, disturbing funeral with intention to wound the feelings or to insult the religion of any person, or offering indignity to a human corpse. | Ditto | Ditto | Ditto | Ditto. |
| 298 | Uttering any word or making any sound in the hearing or making any gesture, or placing any object in the sight of any person, with intention to wound his religious feeling. | Ditto | Non-cognizable | Ditto | Ditto. |
CHAPTER XVI - OFFENCES AFFECTING THE HUMAN BODY | |||||
| 302 | Murder | Death, or imprisonment | Cognizable | Non-bailable | Court of Session. |
| 303 | Murder by a person under sentence of imprisonment for life. | Death | Ditto | Ditto | Ditto. |
| 304 | Culpable homicide not amounting to murder, if act by which the death is caused is done with intention of causing death, etc. | Imprisonment for life, or imprisonment for 10 years and fine. | Ditto
| Ditto
| Ditto.
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| If act is done with knowledge that it is likely to cause death, but without any intention to cause death, etc. | Imprisonment for 10 years, or fine, or both. | Ditto | Ditto | Ditto. | |
| 304 A | Causing death by rash or negligence act. | Imprisonment for 2 years or fine, or both. | Ditto | Bailable | Magistrate of the first class. |
| 304 B | Dowry death | Imprisonment of not less than seven years but which may extend to imprisonment for life. | Ditto | Non-bailable | Court of Session. |
| 305 | Abetment of suicide committed by child, or insane or delirious person or an idiot, or a person intoxicated. | Death, or imprisonment for life, or imprisonment for 10 years and fine. | Ditto | Ditto | Ditto. |
| 306 | Abetting the commission of suicide | Imprisonment for 10 years and fine. | Ditto | Ditto | Ditto. |
| 307 | Attempt to murder
| Ditto
| Ditto
| Ditto
| Ditto
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| If such act causes hurt to any person. | Imprisonment for life, or imprisonment for 10 years and fine. | Ditto
| Ditto
| Ditto.
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Attempt by life-convict to murder, if hurt is caused. | Death or imprisonment for 10 years and fine. | Ditto | Ditto | Ditto. | |
| 308 | Attempt to commit culpable homicide. | Imprisonment for 3 years, or fine, or both. | Ditto
| Ditto
| Ditto.
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If such act causes hurt to any person. | Imprisonment for 7 years, or fine, or both. | Ditto | Ditto | Ditto. | |
| 309 | Attempt to commit suicide | Simple imprisonment for 1 year, or fine, or both. | Ditto | Bailable | Any Magistrate. |
| 311 | Being a thug | Imprisonment for life and fine. | Ditto | Non-bailable | Court of Session. |
| 312 | Causing miscarriage
| Imprisonment for 3 years, fine, or both.
| Non-cognizable
| Bailable
| Magistrate of the first class.
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If the woman be quick with child | Imprisonment for 7 years and fine. | Non-cognizable | Bailable | Magistrate of the first class. | |
| 313 | Causing miscarriage without woman's consent. | Imprisonment for life, or imprisonment for 10 years and fine. | Cognizable | Non-bailable | Court of Session. |
| 314 | Death caused by an act done with intent to cause miscarriage.
| Imprisonment for 10 years and fine.
| Ditto
| Ditto
| Ditto
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If act done without woman's consent. | Imprisonment for life, or as above. | Ditto | Ditto | Ditto | |
| 315 | Act done with intent to prevent a child being born alive, or to cause it to die after its birth. | Imprisonment for 10 years or fine, or both. | Ditto | Ditto | Ditto |
| 316 | Causing death of a quick unborn child by an act amounting to culpable homicide. | Imprisonment for 10 years and fine. | Ditto | Ditto | Ditto |
| 317 | Exposure of a child under 12 years of age by parent or person having care of it with intention of wholly abandoning it. | Imprisonment for 7 years, or fine, or both. | Ditto | Bailable | Magistrate of the first class. |
| 318 | Concealment of birth by secret disposal of dead body. | Imprisonment for 2 years, or fine, or both. | Ditto | Ditto | Ditto |
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