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The Indian Penal Code 1860 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1860

.....Court of Justice (including a liquidator, receiver or Commissioner) whose duty is, as such officer, to investigate or report on any matter of law or fact, or to make, authenticate, or keep any document, or to take charge or dispose of any property or to execute any judicial process, or to a administrator any oath, or to interpret, or to preserve order in the Court, and every person specially authorized by a Court of Justice to perform any of such duties; Fifth--Every juryman, assessor, or member of a Panchayat assisting a Court of Justice or public servant; Sixth--Every arbitrator or other person to whom any cause or matter has been referred for decision or report by any Court of Justice, or by any other competent public authority; Seventh--Every person who holds any office by virtue of which he is empowered to place or keep any person in confinement; Eighth--Every officer of the Government, whose duty it is, as such officer, to prevent offences, to give information of offences, to being offenders to justice, or to protect the public health, safety or convenience; Ninth--Every officer whose duty it is, as such officer, to take, receive, keep or expend any property on behalf of.....

Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860) Chapter 16

Title: Of Offences Affecting the Human Body

State: Central

Year: 1860

.....defence. Explanation.--Whether the provocation was grave and sudden enough to prevent the offence from amounting to murder is a question of fact. Illustrations (a) A, under the influence of passion excited by a provocation given by Z, intentionally kills. Y, Z"s child. This is murder, in as much as the provocation was not given by the child, and the death of the child was not caused by accident or misfortune in doing an act caused by the provocation. (b) Y gives grave and sudden provocation to, A, A, on this provocation, fires a pistol at Y, neither intending nor knowing himself to be likely to kill Z, who is near him, but out of sight. A kills Z. Here A has not committed murder, but merely culpable homicide. (c) A is lawfully arrested by Z, a bailiff. A is excited to sudden and violent passion by the arrest, and kills Z. This is murder, in as much as the provocation was given by a thing done by a public servant in the exercise of his powers. (d) A appears as witness before Z, a Magistrate, Z says that he does not believe a word of A's deposition, and that A has perjured himself. A is moved to sudden passion by these words, and kills Z. This is murder. (e) A.....

Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860) Chapter 17

Title: Of Offences Against 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.....

The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 2012

.....for pornographic purposes or gives gratification therefore. Explanation. " Any question which involves "sexual intent" shall be a question of fact. 12. Whoever, commits sexual harassment upon a child shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extent to three years and shall also be liable to fine. CHAPTER III USING CHILD FOR PORNOGRAPHIC PURPOSES AND PUNISHMENT THEREFOR 13. Whoever, uses a child in any form of media (including programme or advertisement telecast by television channels or internet or any other electronic form or printed form, whether or not such programme or advertisement is intended for personal use or for distribution), for the purposes of sexual gratification, which includes " (a) representation of the sexual organs of a child; (b) usage of a child engaged in real or simulated sexual acts (with or without penetration): (c) the indecent or obscene representation of a child, Shall be guilty of the offence of using a child for pornographic purposes. Explanation " For the purposes of this section, the expression "use a child" shall include involving a child through any medium like print, electronic,.....

The Chhattisgarh Municipalities Act, 1961 Complete Act

State: Chattisgarh

Year: 1961

.....or drains and polluted water from sinks, bathrooms, stables, cattlesheds, and other like places and includes trade effluents and discharges from manufactories of all kinds; (34) "sewer" includes a drain, a house drain or a drain of any other description and any other device for carrying off sullage, sewage, offensive matter, polluted water, rain water, or sub-soil water; (35) "Slaughter-house" means any place used for the slaughter of cattle, sheep, goats, kids or pigs; [Inserted by M.P. Act No. 17 of 1994.] [(35-a) "State Election Commission" means the State Election Commission constituted under Article 243-K of the Constitution;] [Inserted by C.G. Act No. 17 of 2012, w.e.f. 9-8-2012.] [(35-b) "social audit" means the review of the impact of policies, programmes, schemes or procedures adopted or implemented by any municipal authority, by a group or groups of persons residing within the municipal area within which such review is conducted;] (36) "street" means any road, foot-way, square, court, alley or passage, accessible, whether permanently or temporarily to the public, whether a thorough-fare or not; and shall include every vacant space, notwithstanding that it.....

The Madras City Police Act, 1888 Complete Act

State: Tamil Nadu

Year: 1888

.....of keeping or using a room as a common gaming house can be made out only if there is sufficient proof of presence of element of profit. The mere fact that sometimes persons play cards in a house and perhaps for money, does not necessarily make it a common gaming house -1952 MWN 162: Gain is a necessary element to prove the charge " 1954 Crl LJ 56. AIR 1954 Mad 134; 4 . (This Section was repealed by section 3 of, and the second Schedule to, the Tamil Nadu Repealing and Amending Act, 1957 (Tamil Nadu Act XXV of 1957)). [ ]. 5 . Administration vested in the Commissioner of police:- The administration of the Police of the City of Madras shall be vested in an officer to be styled the Commissioner of Police for Madras. (The words "who shall from time to time be appointed by the Governor in Council of Fort St. George and may be removed by the same authority "were omitted by the Adaptation Order of 1937.) [* * *] Administration of police employed at Railway Stations, etc., may be vested in the Inspector-General of Police:- ( This proviso was added by section 1 of the Madras Act III of 1898. As to the control by the Inspector-General of Police of the City Police, see.....

Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860) Chapter 11

Title: Of False Evidence and Offences Against Public Justice

State: Central

Year: 1860

.....197 - Issuing or signing false certificate Whoever issues or signs any certificate required by law to be given or signed, or relating to any fact of which such certificate is by law admissible in evidence, knowing or believing that such certificate is false in any material point, shall be punished in the same manner as if he gave false evidence. Section 198 - Using as true a certificate known to be false Whoever corruptly uses or attempts to use any such certificate as a true certificate, knowing the same to be false in any material point, shall be punished in the same manner as if he gave false evidence. Section 199 - False statement made in declaration which is by law receivable as evidence Whoever, in any declaration made or subscribed by him, which declaration any Court of Justice, or any public servant or other person, is bound or authorised by law to receive as evidence of any fact, makes any statement which is false, and which he either knows or believes to be false or does not believe to be true, touching any point material to the object for which the declaration is made or used, shall be punished in the same manner as if he gave false evidence. Section.....

Maharashtra Municipal Councils, Nagar Panchayats and Insustrial Townships Act, 1965 Complete Act

State: Maharashtra

Year: 1965

.....cow-house, milk-store, milk-shop or other place from which milk is supplied for sale or in which milk is kept for purposes of sale or manufactured into butter, ghee, cheese, curds or dried, sterilized or condensed or toned milk, but does not include- (A) a shop or other place in which milk is sold for consumption on the premises only, or (B) a shop or other place from which milk is sold or supplied in hermetically closed and unopened receptacles in the same original condition in which it was first received in such shop or other place; (9) "Director" means the person appointed by the State Government to be the Director of Municipal Administration under this Act; (10) "drain" includes a sewer, tunnel, pipe, ditch, gutter or channel and any cistern flush-tank, septic tank, or other device for carrying off or treating sewage, offensive matter, polluted water, sullage, waste water, rain water or sub-soil water and any culvert, ventilation shaft or pipe or other appliance or fitting connected therewith, and any electors, compressed air main, sealed sewage mains and special machinery or apparatus for raising, collecting, expelling or removing sewage or offensive matter.....

Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860) Chapter 12

Title: Of Offences Relating to Coin and Government Stamps

State: Central

Year: 1860

..... 2. Substituted by A.O. 1950, for the former paragraph. 3. Substituted by the A.O. 1950, for "the Queen's coin". 4. Inserted by Act 6 of 1896, section 1. Section 231 - Counterfeiting coin Whoever counterfeits or knowingly performs any part of the process of counterfeiting coin, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine. Explanation.--A person commits this offence who intending to practice deception, or knowing it to be likely that deception will thereby be practiced, causes a genuine coin to appear like a different coin. Section 232 - Counterfeiting Indian coin Whoever counterfeits, or knowingly performs any part of the process of counterfeiting1[Indian coin], shall be punished with2[imprisonment for life], or with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine. ______________________ 1 . Substituted by the A.O. 1950, for "the Queen's coin". 2 . Substituted by Act 26 of 1955, section 117 and Schedule, for "transportation for life" (w.e.f. 1-1-1956). Section 233 - Making or selling instrument for.....

Standards of Weights and Measures Enforcement Act, 1985 (54 of 1985) Chapter 11

Title: Offences and Penalties

State: Central

Year: 1985

Whoever,- (a) makes or manufactures, or causes to be made or manufactured (except where he is permitted under the Standards Act so to do), any weight or measure in accordance with any standards other than the standards established by or under the Standards Act, or (b) (i) sells or otherwise transfers, or causes to be sold or otherwise transferred, or (ii) lets, or causes to be let, on hire, any weight or measure which has been manufactured in accordance with any standards other than the standards established by or under the Standards Act,1[shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than three months but which may extend to one year, and, for the second or subsequent offence, with imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than six months, but which may extend to three years, and also with fine.] _______________________ 1. Substituted by Act 72 of 1986, sec. 2, for certain words (w.e.f. 1-7-1987). Section 37 - Penalty for counter-feiting of seals, etc. (1) Whoever,- (i) counterfeits any seal specified by or under this Act or the Standards Act, or (ii) sells or otherwise disposes of any counterfeit seal, or (iii) possesses any.....