IPC Section 32: Words referring to acts include illegal omissions
Indian Penal Code, 1860 · Chapter 2: General Explanations
Repealed on 1 July 2024 and replaced by the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (BNS).
In every part of this Code, except where a contrary intention appears from the context, words which refer to acts done extend also to illegal omissions.
Bare act text for reference, current to 30 June 2024. It is not legal advice; check the official gazette for authoritative text.
Other sections in this chapter
- 6. Definitions in the Code to be understood subject to exceptions
- 7. Sense of expression once explained
- 8. Gender
- 9. Number
- 10. “Man”. “Woman”
- 11. “Person”
- 12. “Public”
- 13. [Omitted.]
- 14. “Servant of Government”
- 15. [Repealed.]
- 16. [Repealed.]
- 17. “Government”
- 18. “India”
- 19. “Judge”
- 20. “Court of Justice”
- 21. “Public servant”
- 22. “Moveable property”
- 23. “Wrongful gain”. “Wrongful loss”. Gaining wrongfully/ Losing wrongfully
- 24. “Dishonestly”
- 25. “Fraudulently”
- 26. “Reason to believe”
- 27. Property in possession of wife, clerk or servant
- 28. “Counterfeit”
- 29. “Document”
- 29A. “Electronic record”
- 30. “Valuable security”
- 31. “A will”
- 33. “Act”. “Omission”
- 34. Acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention
- 35. When such an act is criminal by reason of its being done with a criminal knowledge or intention
- 36. Effect caused partly by act and partly by omission
- 37. Co-operation by doing one of several acts constituting an offence
- 38. Persons concerned in criminal act may be guilty of different offences
- 39. “Voluntarily”
- 40. “Offence”
- 41. “Special law”
- 42. “Local law”
- 43. “Illegal”.“Legally bound to do”
- 44. “Injury”
- 45. “Life”
- 46. “Death”
- 47. “Animal”
- 48. “Vessel”
- 49. “Year”. “Month”
- 50. “Section”
- 51. “Oath”
- 52. “Good faith”
- 52A. “Harbour-“