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Weapon

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Weapon, All specified articles, including knives, are to be regarded as 'weapon' capable of being used as 'weapons of offence' fall within the class of object which may be prohibited, Emperor v. Abdul Latif, AIR 1947 Bom 438: (1947) 49 Bom LR 340.

Includes ammunition, bows and arrows, explosives, firearms, hooks, knives, nets, poison, snares and traps and any instrument or apparatus capable of anaesthetizing, decoying, destroying, injuring or killing an animal. [Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972 (53 of 1972), s. 2(35)

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