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 XVII - OFFENCES AGAINST PROPERTY | |||||
| 379 | Theft | Imprisonment for 3 years, or fine, or both. | Cognizable | Non-bailable | Any Magistrate. |
| 380 | Theft in a building, tent or vessel | Imprisonment for 7 years and fine. | Ditto | Ditto | Ditto |
| 381 | Theft by clerk or servant of property in possession of master or employer. | Imprisonment for 7 years or fine. | Ditto | Ditto | Ditto |
| 382 | Theft, after preparation having been made for causing death, or hurt, or restraint, or fear of death, or of hurt, or of restraint, in order to the committing of such theft, or to retiring after committing it, or to retaining property taken by it. | Rigorous imprisonment for 10 years and fine. | Ditto | Ditto | Magistrate of the first class. |
| 384 | Extortion | Imprisonment for 3 years, or fine, or both. | Ditto | Ditto | Any Magistrate. |
| 385 | Putting or attempting to put in fear of injury, in order to commit extortion. | Imprisonment for 2 years, or fine, or both. | Ditto | Bailable | Ditto |
| 386 | Extortion by putting a person in fear of death or grievous hurt. | Imprisonment for 10 years and fine. | Ditto | Non-bailable | Magistrate of the first class. |
| 387 | Putting or attempting to put a person in fear of death or grievous hurt in order to commit extortion. | Imprisonment for 7 years and fine. | Ditto | Ditto | Ditto |
| 388 | Extortion by threat of accusation of an offence punishable with death, imprisonment for life, or imprisonment for 10 years.
| Imprisonment for 10 years and fine.
| Ditto | Bailable | Ditto |
| If the offence threatened be an unnatural offence. | Imprisonment for life | Ditto | Ditto | Ditto | |
| 389 | Putting a person in fear of accusation of an offence punishable with death, imprisonment for life, or imprisonment for 10 years in order to commit extortion.
| Imprisonment for 10 years and fine.
| Ditto
| Ditto
| Ditto
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| If the offence be an unnatural offence. | Imprisonment for life. | Ditto | Ditto | Ditto | |
| 392 | Robbery
| Rigorous imprisonment for 10 years and fine.
| Ditto
| Non-bailable
| Ditto.
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| If committed on the highway between sunset and sunrise. | Rigorous imprisonment for 14 years and fine. | Ditto | Ditto | Ditto | |
| 393 | Attempt to commit robbery | Rigorous imprisonment for 7 years and fine. | Ditto | Ditto | Ditto |
| 394 | Person voluntarily causing hurt in committing or attempting to commit robbery, or any other person jointly concerned in such robbery. | Imprisonment for life or Rigorous imprisonment for 10 years and fine. | Ditto | Ditto | Ditto |
| 395 | Dacoity | Ditto. | Ditto | Ditto | Court of Session. |
| 396 | Murder in dacoity | Death, imprisonment for life, or rigorous imprisonment for 10 years and fine. | Ditto | Ditto | Ditto |
| 397 | Robbery or dacoity with attempt to cause death or grievous hurt. | Rigorous imprisonment for not less than 7 years. | Ditto | Ditto | Ditto |
| 398 | Attempt to commit robbery or dacoity when armed with deadly weapon. | Ditto. | Ditto | Ditto | Ditto |
| 399 | Making preparation to commit dacoity. | Rigorous imprisonment for 10 years and fine. | Ditto | Ditto | Ditto |
| 400 | Belonging to a gang of persons associated for the purpose of habitually committing dacoity. | Imprisonment for life, or rigorous imprisonment for 10 years and fine. | Ditto | Ditto | Ditto |
| 401 | Belonging to a wandering gang of persons associated for the purpose of habitually committing thefts. | Rigorous imprisonment for 7 years and fine. | Cognizable | Non-bailable | Magistrate of the first class. |
| 402 | Being one Of five or more persons assembled for the purpose of committing dacoity. | Ditto. | Ditto | Ditto | Court of Session. |
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