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Home Bare Acts Phrase: dishonestIndian Penal Code (45 of 1860) Section 403
Title: Dishonest Misappropriation of Property
State: Central
Year: 1860
.....a reasonable time to enable the owner to claim it. What are reasonable means or what is a reasonable time in such a case, is a question of fact. It is not necessary that the finder should know who is the owner of the property, or that any particular person is the owner of it; it is sufficient if, al the time of appropriating it, he does not believe it to be his own properly, or in good faith believe that the real owner cannot be found. Illustrations (a) A finds a rupee on the high road, not knowing to whom the rupee belongs. A picks up the rupee. Here A has not committed the offence defined in this section. (b) A finds a letter on the road, containing a bank note. From the direction and contents of the letter he learns to whom the note belongs. He appropriates the note. He is guilty of an offence under this section. (c) A finds a cheque payable to bearer. He can form no conjecture as to the person who has lost the cheque. But the name of the person, who has drawn the cheque, appears. A knows that this person can direct him to the person in whose favour the cheque was drawn. A appropriates the cheque without attempting to discover the owner. He is guilty of an.....
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Title: Dishonest or Fraudulent Removal or Concealment of Property
State: Central
Year: 1860
Whoever dishonestly or fraudulently conceals or removes any property of himself or any other person, or dishonestly or fraudulently assists in the concealment or removal thereof, or dishonestly releases any demand or claim to which he is entitled, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both.
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Title: Dishonest Misappropriation of Property Possessed by Deceased Person at the Time of His Death
State: Central
Year: 1860
Whoever dishonestly misappropriates or converts to his own use property, knowing that such properly was in the possession of a deceased person at the time of that person's decease, and has not since been in the possession of any person legally entitled to such possession, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, and shall also be liable to fine; and if the offender at the time of such person's decease was employed by him as a clerk or servant, the imprisonment may extend to seven years. Illustration Z dies in possession of furniture and money. His servant A, before the money conies into the possession of any person entitled to such possession, dishonestly misappropriates it. A has committed the offence defined in this section.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionIndian Penal Code (45 of 1860) Section 411
Title: Dishonestly Receiving Stolen Property
State: Central
Year: 1860
Whoever dishonestly receives or retains any stolen property, knowing or having reason to believe the same to be stolen property, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both. STATE AMENDMENT 1[Tamil Nadu: Section 411 of principal Act shall be renumbered as sub-section (i) of that section and after sub-section (1) as so renumbered, the following sub-section shall be added, namely:-- "(2) Whoever dishonestly receives or retains any idol or icon stolen from any building used as a place of worship knowing or having reason to believe the same to be stolen property shall, notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), be punished with rigorous imprisonment which shall not be less than two years but which shall not be less than two thousand rupees: Provided that the court may, for adequate and special reasons to be mentioned in the judgment, impose a sentence of imprisonment for a term of less than two years,"]. _______________ 1. Vide Tamil Nadu Act 28 of 1993, section 3 (w.e.f. 13-7-1993).
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Title: Dishonestly Receiving Property Stolen in the Commission of a Dacoity
State: Central
Year: 1860
Whoever dishonestly receives or retains any stolen property, the possession whereof he knows or has reason to believe to have been transferred by the commission of dacoity, or dishonestly receives from a person, whom he knows or has reason to believe to belong or to have belonged to a gang of dacoits, property which he knows or has reason to believe to have been stolen, shall be punished with1[imprisonment for life], or with rigorous imprisonment for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine. ________________________ 1 . Substituted by Act 26 of 1955, section 117 and Schedule for "transportation for Life" (w.e.f. 1-1-1950).
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionInformation Technology Act, 2000 Section 66B
Title: Punishment for Dishonestly Receiving Stolen Computer Resource or Communication Device.
State: Central
Year: 2000
1[66B.Punishment for dishonestly receiving stolen computer resource or communication device.- Whoever dishonestly received or retains any stolen computer resource or communication device knowing or having reason to believe the same to be stolen computer resource or communication device, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years or with fine which may extend to rupees one lakh or with both. ______________________ 1. Inserted vide Information Technology (Amendment) Act, 2008.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionIndian Penal Code (45 of 1860) Section 24
Title: "dishonestly"
State: Central
Year: 1860
Whoever does anything with the intention of causing wrongful gain to one person or wrongful loss to another person, is said to do that thing "dishonestly".
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionIndian Penal Code (45 of 1860) Section 209
Title: Dishonestly Making False Claim in Court
State: Central
Year: 1860
Whoever fraudulently or dishonestly, or with intent to injure or annoy any person, makes in a Court of Justice any claim which he knows to be false, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, and shall also be liable to fine.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionIndian Penal Code (45 of 1860) Section 246
Title: Fraudulently or Dishonestly Diminishing Weight or Altering Composition of Coin
State: Central
Year: 1860
Whoever fraudulently or dishonestly performs on any coin any operation which diminishes the weight or alters the composition of that coin, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, and shall also be liable to fine. Explanation.--A person who scoops out part of the coin and puts anything else into the cavity alters the composition of that coin.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionIndian Penal Code (45 of 1860) Section 420
Title: Cheating and Dishonestly Inducing Delivery of Property
State: Central
Year: 1860
Whoever cheats and thereby dishonestly induces the person deceived to deliver any property to any person, or to make, alter or destroy the whole or any part of a valuable security, or anything which is signed or sealed, and which is capable of being converted into a valuable security, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine.
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