Chapter 17 - Offences Against Property

Question 1

Section 378

Answer 1

Theft

Whoever, intending to take dishonestly any movable property out of the possession of any person without that person’s consent, moves that property in order to such taking, is said to commit theft

Question 2

Section 379

Answer 2

Punishment for theft

Imprisonment for a term which may extend to 3 years, or with fine, or with both

Question 3

Section 379A

Answer 3

Punishment for theft of a motor vehicle

Imprisonment for a term which may extend to 7 years, and shall also be liable to fine

May be disqualified from holding or obtaining a driving licence

Question 4

Section 380

Answer 4

Theft in dwelling-house, etc.

Any building, tent or vessel used as human dwelling, or for the custody of property

Imprisonment for a term which may extend to 7 years, and shall also be liable to fine

Question 5

Section 381

Answer 5

Theft by clerk or servant of property in possession of master

Imprisonment for a term which may extend to 7 years, and shall also be liable to fine

Question 6

Section 383

Answer 6

Extortion

Whoever intentionally puts any person in fear of any harm to that person or to any other person, in body, mind, reputation or property, whether such harm is to be caused legally or illegally, and thereby dishonestly induces the person so put in fear to deliver to any person any property or valuable security, or anything signed or sealed which may be converted into a valuable security, commits “extortion”

Question 7

Section 384

Answer 7

Punishment for extortion

Imprisonment for a term of not less than 2 years and not more than 7 years and with caning

Question 8

Section 385

Answer 8

Putting person in fear of harm in order to commit extortion

Imprisonment for a term of not less than 2 years and not more than 5 years and with caning

Question 9

Section 386

Answer 9

Extortion by putting a person in fear of death or grievous hurt

Imprisonment for a term of not less than 2 years and not more than 10 years and with caning

Question 10

Section 387

Answer 10

Putting person in fear of death or of grievous hurt in order to commit extortion

Imprisonment for a term of not less than 2 years and not more than 7 years and with caning

Question 11

Section 388

Answer 11

Extortion by threat of accusation of an offence punishable with death, or imprisonment, etc.

Imprisonment for a term which may extend to 10 years, and shall also be liable to fine or to caning

Question 12

Section 389

Answer 12

Putting person in fear of accusation of offence, in order to commit extortion

Imprisonment for a term which may extend to 10 years, and shall also be liable to fine or to caning

Question 13

Section 390

Answer 13

Robbery

(1) In all robbery there is either theft or extortion
(2) Theft is “robbery” if, in order to commit theft, or in committing the theft, or in carrying away or attempting to carry away property obtained by the theft, the offender, for that end, voluntarily causes or attempts to cause to any person death, or hurt, or wrongful restraint, or fear of instant death, or of instant hurt, or of instant wrongful restraint
(3) Extortion is “robbery” if the offender, at the time of committing the extortion, is in the presence of the person put in fear, and commits the extortion by putting that person in fear of instant death, of instant hurt, or of instant wrongful restraint to that person or to some other person, and, by so putting in fear, induces the person so put in fear then and there to deliver up the thing extorted

Question 14

Section 391

Answer 14

Gang-robbery

Involves 5 or more persons

Question 15

Section 394

Answer 15

Voluntarily causing hurt in committing robbery

Imprisonment for a term of not less than 5 years and not more than 20 years and shall also be punished with caning with not less than 12 strokes

Question 16

Section 396

Answer 16

Gang-robbery with murder

Every one of those persons shall be punished with death or imprisonment for life, and if he is not sentenced to death, shall also be punished with caning with not less than 12 strokes

Question 17

Section 397

Answer 17

Robbery when armed or with attempt to cause death or grievous hurt

Such offender, and any other person jointly concerned in committing or attempting to commit such robbery, shall be punished with caning with not less than 12 strokes, in addition to any other punishment to which he may be liable under any other section of this Code

Question 18

Section 403

Answer 18

Dishonest misappropriation of property

Dishonestly misappropriates or converts to his own use movable property

Imprisonment for a term which may extend to 2 years, or with fine, or with both

Question 19

Section 405

Answer 19

Criminal breach of trust

Whoever, being in any manner entrusted with property, or with any dominion over property, dishonestly misappropriates or converts to his own use that property, or dishonestly uses or disposes of that property in violation of any direction of law prescribing the mode in which such trust is to be discharged, or of any legal contract, express or implied, which he has made touching the discharge of such trust, or wilfully suffers any other person to do so, commits “criminal breach of trust”

Question 20

Section 407

Answer 20

Criminal breach of trust by carrier, etc.

Imprisonment for a term which may extend to 15 years, and shall also be liable to fine

Question 21

Section 408

Answer 21

Criminal breach of trust by clerk or servant

Imprisonment for a term which may extend to 15 years, and shall also be liable to fine

Question 22

Section 409

Answer 22

Criminal breach of trust by public servant, or by banker, merchant, or agent

Imprisonment for life, or with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 20 years, and shall also be liable to fine

Question 23

Section 410

Answer 23

Stolen property

Property the possession whereof has been transferred by theft, or by extortion, or by robbery, and property which has been criminally misappropriated, or in respect of which criminal breach of trust or cheating has been committed

Question 24

Section 411

Answer 24

Dishonestly receiving stolen property

Imprisonment for a term which may extend to 5 years, or with fine, or with both; and

May be disqualified from holding or obtaining a driving licence (If involving motor vehicle or any of its component part)

Question 25

Section 412

Answer 25

Dishonestly receiving property stolen in the commission of a gang-robbery

Imprisonment for life, or with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 10 years, and shall also be liable to fine

Question 26

Section 413

Answer 26

Habitually dealing in stolen property

Imprisonment for a term which may extend to 20 years, and shall also be liable to fine

Question 27

Section 414

Answer 27

Assisting in concealment or disposal of stolen property

Imprisonment for a term which may extend to 5 years, or with fine, or with both; and

May be disqualified from holding or obtaining a driving licence (If involving motor vehicle or any of its component part)

Question 28

Section 415

Answer 28

Cheating

Whoever, by deceiving any person, whether or not such deception was the sole or main inducement, fraudulently or dishonestly induces the person so deceived to deliver any property to any person, or to consent that any person shall retain any property, or intentionally induces the person so deceived to do or omit to do anything which he would not do or omit to do if he were not so deceived, and which act or omission causes or is likely to cause damage or harm to any person in body, mind, reputation or property, is said to “cheat”

Question 29

Section 416

Answer 29

Cheating by personation

Cheats by pretending to be some other person, or by knowingly substituting one person for another, or representing that he or any other person is a person other than he or such other person really is

Question 30

Section 421

Answer 30

Dishonest or fraudulent removal or concealment of property to prevent distribution among creditors

Imprisonment for a term which may extend to 3 years, or with fine, or with both

Question 31

Section 422

Answer 31

Dishonestly or fraudulently preventing a debt or demand due to the offender from being made available for his creditors

Imprisonment for a term which may extend to 3 years, or with fine, or with both

Question 32

Section 423

Answer 32

Dishonest or fraudulent execution of deed of transfer containing a false statement of consideration

Imprisonment for a term which may extend to 3 years, or with fine, or with both

Question 33

Section 424

Answer 33

Dishonest or fraudulent removal or concealment of property or release of claim

Imprisonment for a term which may extend to 3 years, or with fine, or with both

Question 34

Section 425

Answer 34

Mischief

Whoever, with intent to cause, or knowing that he is likely to cause, wrongful loss or damage to the public or any person, causes the destruction of any property, or any such change in any property, or in the situation thereof, as destroys or diminishes its value or utility, or affects it injuriously, commits “mischief”

Question 35

Section 426

Answer 35

Punishment for committing mischief

Imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine, or with both

Note: Non-arrestable

Question 36

Section 435

Answer 36

Mischief by fire or explosive substance with intent to cause damage

Punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 7 years, and shall also be liable to fine

Question 37

Section 436

Answer 37

Mischief by fire or explosive substance with intent to destroy a house, etc.

Imprisonment for life, or with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 10 years, and shall also be liable to fine

Question 38

Section 441

Answer 38

Criminal trespass

Whoever enters into or upon property in the possession of another with intent to commit an offence or to intimidate, insult or annoy any person in possession of such property, or having lawfully entered into or upon such property, unlawfully remains there with intent thereby to intimidate, insult or annoy any such person, or with intent to commit an offence, is said to commit “criminal trespass”

Question 39

Section 442

Answer 39

House-trespass

Whoever commits criminal trespass by entering into, or remaining in, any building, tent or vessel used as a human dwelling, or any building used as a place for worship or as a place for the custody of property, is said to commit “house-trespass”

Question 40

Section 443

Answer 40

Lurking house-trespass

Whoever commits house-trespass, having taken precautions to conceal such house-trespass from some person who has a right to exclude or eject the trespasser from the building, tent or vessel which is the subject of the trespass, is said to commit “lurking housetrespass”

Question 41

Section 444

Answer 41

Lurking house-trespass by night

Whoever commits lurking house-trespass after 7 p.m. and before 7 a.m., is said to commit “lurking house-trespass by night”

Question 42

Section 445

Answer 42

House-breaking

He effects his entrance into the house or any part of it in any of the 6 ways hereinafter described; or if, being in the house or any part of it for the purpose of committing an offence, or having committed an offence therein, he quits the house or any part of it in any of such 6 ways:

(a) through a passage made
(b) through a passage not intended for human entrance or by climbing over wall or building
(c) through a passage that was opened, but which was not intended by the occupier to be opened
(d) by opening any lock
(e) by using criminal force, assault or threat
(f) by unfastening any passage which was fastened against entrance or departure

Question 43

Section 446

Answer 43

House-breaking by night

Whoever commits house-breaking after 7 p.m. and before 7 a.m., is said to commit “house-breaking by night”