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TypeBare Act JurisdictionCentral Government

The Indian Penal Code 1860 Section 12

"PUBLIC" The word "Public" includes any class of the public or any community. COMMENTS It means members of the

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The Indian Penal Code 1860 Section 12 is part of The Indian Penal Code 1860 - "PUBLIC" The word "Public" includes any class of the public or any community. COMMENTS It means members of the. Read the section text below and explore Indian court judgments that cite it.

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Section Text

SECTION 12: "PUBLIC" The word "Public" includes any class of the public or any community. COMMENTS It means members of the community, the aggregate of the citizen of a State, nation or municipality, inhabitants of a particular person. Public is a term of uncertain import, it must be limited in every case by the context in which it is used.It does not generally mean the inhabitants of the world or even the inhabitants of this country.In any specific context, it may mean for practical purposes only the inhabitants of a village or such members of the community or would be interestedin any particular matter, professional, political, social, artistic or local.

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Section Section 12 of the The Indian Penal Code 1860 ("PUBLIC" The word "Public" includes any class of the public or any community. COMMENTS It means members of the) is reproduced on this page as part of the The Indian Penal Code 1860. Lawyers and researchers use it to read the statutory wording before checking how courts have applied this section in reported judgments.

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