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334. Dishonestly breaking open receptacle containing property.
(1) Whoever dishonestly or with intent to commit mischief, breaks open or unfastens any closed receptacle which contains or which he believes to contain property, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both.
(2) Whoever, being entrusted with any closed receptacle which contains or which he believes to contain property, without having authority to open the same, dishonestly, or with intent to commit mischief, breaks open or unfastens that receptacle, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both.
Under Section 334 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, anyone who dishonestly breaks open or unfastens any closed receptacle containing or believed to contain property faces imprisonment of up to two years, a fine, or both. In procedural practice, reference to criminal code 334 b highlights the statutory penalties applied when an entrusted person commits criminal breach of trust regarding secured receptacles under the criminal code.
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