The Indian Penal Code, Act XLV of 1860: With All Amendments, and Notes, Analyses, and Commentaries Thereon

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Srinivasa, Varadachari, 1893 - Criminal law - 448 pages

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Page 297 - Whoever voluntarily causes a woman with child to miscarry shall, if such miscarriage be not caused in good faith for the purpose of saving the life of the woman, be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both...
Page 169 - State or with any public servant, as such, shall be punished with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine, or with both.
Page 188 - ... with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to one month, or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or with both...
Page 307 - ... or with fine which may extend to two thousand rupees, or with both.
Page 263 - I think the test of obscenity is this: whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity is to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences, and into whose hands a publication of this sort may fall.
Page 176 - ... shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees or with both.
Page 82 - ... it is not every kind of frantic humor or something unaccountable in a man's actions, that points him out to be such a madman rs is to be exempted from punishment ; it must be a man that is totally deprived of his understanding and memory, and doth not know what he is doing, no more than an infant, than a brute, or a wild beast...
Page 184 - Laws 479 to such public servant or other person as aforesaid, touching that subject, any statement, which is false and which he either knows or believes to be false or does not believe to be true, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, and shall also be liable to fine.
Page 148 - ... shall be punished with transportation for life, or with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.
Page 316 - Whoever makes any gesture, or any preparation, intending, or knowing it to be likely, that such gesture, or preparation, will cause any person present to apprehend that he who makes that gesture, or preparation, is about to use criminal force to that person, is said to commit an assault.

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