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TypeBare Act JurisdictionCentral Government

The Indian Penal Code 1860 Section 349

FORCE A person is said to use force to another if he causes motion, change of motion, or cessation of motion to that

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The Indian Penal Code 1860 Section 349 is part of The Indian Penal Code 1860 - FORCE A person is said to use force to another if he causes motion, change of motion, or cessation of motion to that. Read the section text below and explore Indian court judgments that cite it.

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Section Text

SECTION 349: FORCE A person is said to use force to another if he causes motion, change of motion, or cessation of motion to that other, or if he causes to any substance such motion, or change of motion, or cessation of motion as brings that substance into contact with any part of that other's body, or with anything which that other is wearing or carrying, or with anything so situated that such contact affects that other's sense of feeling: PROVIDED that the person causing the motion, or change or motion, or cessation of motion, causes that motion, change of motion, or cessation of motion in one of the three ways herein after described:-- First--By his own bodily power. Secondly--By disposing any substance in such a manner that the motion or change or cessation of motion takes place without any further act on his part, or on the part of any other person. Thirdly--By inducing any animal to move, to change its motion, or to cease to move.

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What does The Indian Penal Code 1860 Section 349 provide?

Section Section 349 of the The Indian Penal Code 1860 (FORCE A person is said to use force to another if he causes motion, change of motion, or cessation of motion to that) 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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