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Indian Penal Code, 1860 Section 341The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 Section 126

Indian Penal Code, 1860

Section 341

Punishment for wrongful restraint

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Indian Penal Code, 1860

341. Punishment for wrongful restraint

Whoever wrongfully restrains any person shall be punished with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to one month, or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or with both.

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The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023

Section 126

Wrongful restraint

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The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 Of wrongful restraint and wrongful confinement

126. Wrongful restraint.

(1) Whoever voluntarily obstructs any person so as to prevent that person from proceeding in any direction in which that person has a right to proceed, is said wrongfully to restrain that person.

Exception.-The obstruction of a private way over land or water which a person in good faith believes himself to have a lawful right to obstruct, is not an offence within the meaning of this section.

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A obstructs a path along which Z has a right to pass, A not believing in good faith that he has a right to stop the path. Z is thereby prevented from passing. A wrongfully restrains Z.

(2) Whoever wrongfully restrains any person shall be punished with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to one month, or with fine which may extend to five thousand rupees, or with both.

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