BBanaka

IPC: Chapter 2: General Explanations

Repealed on 1 July 2024 and replaced by the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (BNS).

  1. Section 6. Definitions in the Code to be understood subject to exceptions
  2. Section 7. Sense of expression once explained
  3. Section 8. Gender
  4. Section 9. Number
  5. Section 10. “Man”. “Woman”
  6. Section 11. “Person”
  7. Section 12. “Public”
  8. Section 13. [Omitted.]
  9. Section 14. “Servant of Government”
  10. Section 15. [Repealed.]
  11. Section 16. [Repealed.]
  12. Section 17. “Government”
  13. Section 18. “India”
  14. Section 19. “Judge”
  15. Section 20. “Court of Justice”
  16. Section 21. “Public servant”
  17. Section 22. “Moveable property”
  18. Section 23. “Wrongful gain”. “Wrongful loss”. Gaining wrongfully/ Losing wrongfully
  19. Section 24. “Dishonestly”
  20. Section 25. “Fraudulently”
  21. Section 26. “Reason to believe”
  22. Section 27. Property in possession of wife, clerk or servant
  23. Section 28. “Counterfeit”
  24. Section 29. “Document”
  25. Section 29A. “Electronic record”
  26. Section 30. “Valuable security”
  27. Section 31. “A will”
  28. Section 32. Words referring to acts include illegal omissions
  29. Section 33. “Act”. “Omission”
  30. Section 34. Acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention
  31. Section 35. When such an act is criminal by reason of its being done with a criminal knowledge or intention
  32. Section 36. Effect caused partly by act and partly by omission
  33. Section 37. Co-operation by doing one of several acts constituting an offence
  34. Section 38. Persons concerned in criminal act may be guilty of different offences
  35. Section 39. “Voluntarily”
  36. Section 40. “Offence”
  37. Section 41. “Special law”
  38. Section 42. “Local law”
  39. Section 43. “Illegal”.“Legally bound to do”
  40. Section 44. “Injury”
  41. Section 45. “Life”
  42. Section 46. “Death”
  43. Section 47. “Animal”
  44. Section 48. “Vessel”
  45. Section 49. “Year”. “Month”
  46. Section 50. “Section”
  47. Section 51. “Oath”
  48. Section 52. “Good faith”
  49. Section 52A. “Harbour-“

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