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Section 462 - Indian Penal Code, 1860
Indian Penal Code, 1860
462. Punishment for same offence when committed by person entrusted with custody
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.
Related Sections
- Section 217: Public servant disobeying direction of law with intent to save person from punishment or property from forfeiture
- Section 57: Fractions of terms of punishment
- Section 396: Dacoity with murder
- Section 261: Effacing, writing from substance bearing Government stamp, or removing from document a stamp used for it, with intent to cause loss to Government
- Section 127: Receiving property taken by war on depredation mentioned in sections 125 and 126-
Related Acts
- Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in Teachers Cadre) Act, 2019
- Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act, 2020
- Indian Institute of Petroleum and Energy Act, 2017
- Institute of Teaching and Research in Ayurveda Act, 2020
- Marine Aids to Navigation Act, 2021
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