Section 409. Criminal breach of trust by public servant, or by banker, merchant or agent
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Act
Indian Penal Code, 1860
Section number
409
Section reader
Indian Penal Code, 1860
409. Criminal breach of trust by public servant, or by banker, merchant or agent
Whoever, being in any manner entrusted with property, or with any dominion over property in his capacity of a public servant or in the way of his business as a banker, merchant, factor, broker, attorney or agent, commits criminal breach of trust in respect of that property, shall be punished with 152[imprisonment for life], or with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.
