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 XIX - CRIMINAL BREACH OF CONTRACTS OF SERVICE
491	Being bound to attend on or supply the wants of a person who is helpless from youth, unsoundness of mind or disease, and voluntarily omitting to do so.	Imprisonment for 3 months, or fine of 200 rupees or both.	Non-cognizable	Bailable	Any Magistrate.
CHAPTER XX - OFFENCES RELATING TO MARRIAGE.
493	A man by deceit causing a woman not lawfully married to him to believe that she is lawfully married to him and to cohabit with him in that belief.	Imprisonment for 10 years and fine.	Non-cognizable	Non-bailable	Magistrate of the first class.
494	Marrying again during the life-time of a husband or wife.	Imprisonment for 7 years and fine.	Ditto	Bailable	Ditto.
495	Same offence with concealment of the former marriage from the Person with whom subsequent marriage is contracted.	Imprisonment for 10 years and fine.	Ditto	Ditto	Ditto
496	A person with fraudulent intention going through the ceremony of being married, knowing that he is not thereby lawfully married.	Imprisonment for 7 years and fine.	Ditto	Ditto	Ditto
497	Adultery	Imprisonment for 5 years, or fine, or both.	Ditto	Ditto	Ditto
498	Enticing or taking away or detaining with a criminal intent a married woman.	Imprisonment for 2 years, or fine, or both.	Ditto	Ditto	Any Magistrate.
CHAPTER XX - A - OF CRUELTY BY HUSBAND OR RELATIVES OF HUSBAND.
498 A	Subjecting a married woman to cruelty.	Imprisonment for three years and fine.	Cognizable if information relating to the commission of the offence is given to an officer in charge of a police station by the person aggrieved by the offence or by any person related to her by blood, marriage or adoption or if there is no such relative, by any public servant belonging to such class or category as may be notified by the State Government in this behalf	Non-bailable	Magistrate of the first class.
CHAPTER XXI - DEFAMATION
500	Defamation against the President or the Vice-President or the Governor of a State or Administrator of a Union territory or a Minister in respect of his conduct in the discharge of his public functions when instituted upon a complaint made by the Public Prosecutor.	Simple Imprisonment for 2 years, or fine, or both.	Non-cognizable	Bailable	Court of Session
500	Defamation in any other case	Ditto	Ditto	Ditto	Magistrate of the first class.
501	(a) Printing or engraving matter knowing it to be defamatory against the President of the Vice-President or the Governor of a State or Administrator of a Union territory or a Minister in respect of his conduct in the discharge of his public functions when instituted upon a complaint made by the Public Prosecutor.	Ditto	Ditto	Ditto	Court of Session.
501	(b) Printing or engraving matter knowing it to be defamatory, in any other case.	Ditto	Ditto	Ditto	Magistrate of the first class.
502	(a) Sale of printed or engraved substance containing defamatory matter, knowing it to contain such matter against the President or the Vice-President or the Governor of a State or Administrator of a Union territory or a Minister in respect of his conduct in the discharge of his public functions when instituted upon a complaint made by the Public Prosecutor.	Ditto	Ditto	Ditto	Court of Session.
502	(b) Sale of printed or engraved substance containing defamatory matter, knowing it to contain such matter in any other case.	Simple imprisonment for 2 years, or fine, or both.	Non-cognizable	Bailable	Magistrate of the first class.

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