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Imprisonment, 'imprisonment' shall mean imprisonment of either description as defined in the Indian Penal Code. [General Clauses Act, 1897 (10 of 1897), s. 3(27)] The restraint of a person's liberty under the

Common informer

Common informer, a person who prosecutes others for breaches of penal laws, or furnishes evidence on criminal trials for no other reason than to get the penalty or a

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Firearms

Firearms. This word comprises all sorts of guns, fowling-pieces, blunderbusses, pistols, etc. Their discharge in a street is penal. A weapon that expels a projected (such as ballets or pallets) by combustion of gunpowder or other explosive,

Object held sacred

out in processions on festival occasions, A. Veerabhadran Chettiar v. E.V. Ramaswami Naicker, AIR 1955 Mad 550. (Indian Penal Code, s. 295) Any object however trivial or destitute of real value in itself, if regarded as sacred

Whoever

Amendment Act, 39 of 1957] The word 'whoever' occurring at the opening part of s. 202 of the Penal Code refers to a person other than the offender and has no application to the person who is

Keeping

necessity arises, State of Haryana v. Raja Ram, (1973) 1 SCC 544: AIR 1973 SC 819 (822). (Indian Penal Code, s. 361) The words 'takes or entices any minor... out of the keeping of the lawful guardian

Theft and larceny

of property from the person legally entitled thereto, may amount to 'theft' under s. 378 of the Indian Penal Code, in this respect the offence differs from 'larceny' in English Law which contemplates permanent gain or loss,

Indecent assault

labour up to two years; and s. 62, whereby such an assault on a male is punishable by penal servitude up to ten years, or imprisonment: consent of either girl or boy under sixteen being by the

Sacrilege

or being therein and committing any felony therein, and breaking out of the same, is felony punishable by penal servitude or imprisonment. The offence was for a long time capital, the last execution having taken place in

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