The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898
( ACT NO. V OF 1898 )
[ 22nd March, 1898 ]
Part VI
PROCEEDINGS IN PROSECUTIONS
Chapter XXIV
GENERAL PROVISIONS AS TO INQUIRIES AND TRIALS
Offence. |
Sections of Penal Code applicable. |
Persons by whom offence may be compounded. |
Uttering works, etc., with deliberate intent to wound the religious feelings of any person. |
298 |
The person whose religious feelings are intended to be wounded. |
Causing hurt |
323,334 |
The person to whom the hurt is caused. |
Wrongfully restraining or confining any person. |
341, 342 |
The person restained or confined. |
Assault or use of criminal force |
352, 355, 358 |
The person assaulted or to whom criminal force is used. |
Unlawful compulsory labour |
374 |
The person compelled to labour. |
Mischief, when the only loss or damage caused is loss or damage to a private person. |
426, 427 |
The person to whom the loss or damage is caused. |
Criminal trespass House-trespass |
447 448 |
The person in possession of the property trespassed upon. |
Criminal breach of contract of service. |
490, 491, 492 |
The person with whom the offender has contracted. |
Adultery Enticing or taking away or detaining with criminal intent a married woman. |
497 498 |
The husband of the woman. |
Defamation Printing or engraving matter, knowing it to be defamatory. Sale of printed or engraved substance containing defamatory matter, knowing it to contain such matter. |
500 501 502 |
The person defamed. |
Insult intended to provoke a breach of the peace. |
504 |
The person insulted. |
Criminal intimidation except when the offence is punishable with imprisonment for seven years. |
506 |
The person intimidated. |
Act caused by making a person believe that he will be an object of divine displeasure. |
508 |
The person against whom the offence was committed. |
Offence. |
Sections of Penal Code applicable. |
Persons by whom offence may be compounded. |
[Rioting. |
147 |
The person against whom force or violence has been used. |
Rioting armed with deadly weapon. |
148 |
Ditto.] |
Voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous weapons or means. |
324 |
The person to whom hurt is caused. |
Voluntarily causing grievous hurt. |
325 |
Ditto. |
Voluntarily causing grievous hurt on grave and sudden provocation. |
335 |
The person to whom hurt is caused. |
1[Act endangering human life or the personal safety of others. |
336 |
Ditto.] |
Causing hurt by doing an act so rashly and negligently as to endanger human life or the personal safety of others. House-trespass |
337 |
Ditto. |
Causing grievous hurt by doing an act so rashly and negligently as to endanger human life or the personal safety of others. |
338 |
Ditto. |
Wrongfully confining a person for three days or more |
343 |
The person confined. |
2[Wrongfully confining for ten or more days. |
344 |
Ditto.] |
Wrongfully confining a person in secret. |
346 |
Ditto. |
3[Wrongfully confinement to extort property or constrain to illegal act. |
347 |
The person wrongfully confined. |
Wrongful confinement to extort confession or compel restoration of property. |
348 |
Ditto.] |
4[Assault or criminal force to women with intent to outrage her modesty. |
354 |
The women assaulted or to whom the criminal force was used.] |
5[Assault or criminal force in attempt to commit theft of property worn or carried by a person. |
356 |
The person assaulted or to whom criminal force is used.] |
Assault or criminal force in attempting wrongfully to confine a person. |
357 |
The person assaulted or to whom the force was used. |
379 |
The owner of the property stolen.] |
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8[Theft in dwelling house. |
380 |
Ditto] |
9[Theft by clerk or servant of property in possession of master 10[* * *]. |
381 |
Ditto.] |
Dishonest misappropriation of property. |
403 |
The owner of the property misappropriated. |
406 |
The owner of the property in respect of which the breach of trust has been committed. |
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Criminal breach of trust by a carrier, wharfinger, etc. 13[***]. |
407 |
Ditto. |
Criminal breach of trust by a clerk or servant 14[***]. |
408 |
Ditto. |
Dishonestly receiving stolen property, knowing it to be stolen 15[* * *]. |
411 |
The owner of the property stolen. |
Assisting in the concealment or disposal of stolen property, knowing it to be stolen 16[* * *]. |
414 |
Ditto.] |
Cheating |
417 |
The person cheated. |
Cheating a person whose interest the offender was bound, by law or by legal contract, to protect. |
418 |
Ditto. |
Cheating by personation |
419 |
Ditto. |
Cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property or the making, alteration or destruction of a valuable security. |
420 |
Ditto. |
17[Fraudulent removal or concealment of property, etc. to prevent distribution among creditors. |
421 |
The creditors who are affected thereby. |
Fraudulently preventing from being made available for his creditors a debt or demand due to the offender. |
422 |
Ditto. |
Fraudulent execution of deed of transfer containing false statement of consideration. |
423 |
The person affected thereby. |
Fraudulent removal or concealment of property. |
424 |
Ditto. |
Mischief by killing or maiming animal 18[* * *]. |
428 |
The owner of the animal. |
Mischief by killing or maiming cattle, etc. 19[* * *]. |
429 |
The owner of the cattle, or animal.] |
Mischief by injury to work of irrigation by wrongfully diverting water when the only loss or damage caused is loss or damage to a private person. |
430 |
The person to whom the loss or damage is caused. |
House-trespass to commit an offence (other than theft) punishable with imprisonment. |
451 |
The person is possession of the house trespassed upon. |
Using a false trade or property mark. |
482 |
The person to whom loss or injury is caused by such use. |
Counterfeiting a trade or property mark used by another. |
483 |
The person whose trade or property mark is counterfeited. |
Knowingly selling, or exposing or possessing for sale or for trade or manufacturing purpose, goods marked with a counterfeit trade or property mark. |
486 |
Ditto |
20[Cohabitation caused by a man deceitfully including a belief of lawful marriage. |
493 |
The woman with whom cohabitation was caused.] |
Marrying again during the life-time of a husband or wife. |
494 |
The husband or wife of the person so marrying. |
Uttering words or sounds or making gestures or exhibiting any object intending to insult the modesty of a woman or intruding upon the privacy of a woman. |
509 |
The woman whom it is intended to insult or whose privacy is intruded upon. |
21[Attempting to commit offences punishable with transportation or imprisonment. |
511 |
The person against whom such attempt was made for committing the offence.] |

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1Sections 147 and 148 and the entries relating thereto were inserted by section 25 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (Second Amendment) Ordinance, 1982 (Ordinance No. XXIV of 1982)
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2Section 336 and the entries relating thereto were inserted by section 25 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (Second Amendment) Ordinance, 1982 (Ordinance No. XXIV of 1982)
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3Section 344 and the entries relating thereto were inserted by section 2 and Schedule of the Law Reforms Ordinance, 1978 (Ordinance No. XLIX of 1978)
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4Sections 347 and 348 and the entries relating thereto were inserted by section 25 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (Second Amendment) Ordinance, 1982 (Ordinance No. XXIV of 1982)
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5Section 354 and the entries relating thereto were inserted by Schedule of the Law Reforms Ordinance, 1978 (Ordinance No. XLIX of 1978)
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6Section 356 and the entries relating thereto were inserted by section 2 and Schedule of the Code of Criminal Procedure (Second Amendment) Ordinance, 1982 (Ordinance No. XXIV of 1982)
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7Sections 379 and 381 and the entries relating thereto were inserted by the Schedule of the Law Reforms Ordinance, 1978 (Ordinance No. XLIX of 1978)
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8The comma and the words “, where the value of the property stolen does not exceed taka five hundred” were omitted by section 12 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (Second Amendment) Ordinance, 1982 (Ordinance No. XXIV of 1982)
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9Section 380 and the entries relating thereto was inserted by section 2 and Schedule of the Code of Criminal Procedure (Second Amendment) Ordinance, 1982 (Ordinance No. XXIV of 1982)
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10Sections 381 and the entries relating thereto were inserted by the Schedule of the Law Reforms Ordinance, 1978 (Ordinance No. XLIX of 1978)
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11The comma and the words “, where the value of the property stolen does not exceed taka five hundred” were omitted by section 12 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (Second Amendment) Ordinance, 1982 (Ordinance No. XXIV of 1982)
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12Sections 406, 407, 408, 411 and 414 and the entries relating thereto were inserted by the Schedule of the Law Reforms Ordinance, 1978 (Ordinance No. XLIX of 1978)
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13The comma and the words “, where the value of the property does not exceed taka five thousand” were omitted by section 12 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (Third Amendment) Ordinance, 1982 (Ordinance No. LX of 1982)
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14The comma and the words “, where the value of the property does not exceed taka five thousand” were omitted by section 12 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (Third Amendment) Ordinance, 1982 (Ordinance No. LX of 1982)
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15The comma and the words “, where the value of the property does not exceed taka five thousand” were omitted by section 12 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (Third Amendment) Ordinance, 1982 (Ordinance No. LX of 1982)
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The comma and the words “, where the value of the property does not exceed taka five thousand” were omitted by section 12 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (Third Amendment) Ordinance, 1982 (Ordinance No. LX of 1982) -
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The comma and the words “, where the value of the stolen property does not exceed taka five hundred” were omitted by section 12 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (Third Amendment) Ordinance, 1982 (Ordinance No. LX of 1982) -
18Sections 421, 422, 423, 424, 428 and 429 and the entries relating thereto were inserted by the Schedule of the Law Reforms Ordinance, 1978 (Ordinance No. XLIX of 1978)
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19The words “of the value or taka ten or upwards” were omitted by section 12 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (Third Amendment) Ordinance, 1982 (Ordinance No. LX of 1982)
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20The comma and words “, of any value or any other animal of the value of taka fifty or upwards” were omitted by section 12 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (Third Amendment) Ordinance, 1982 (Ordinance No. LX of 1982)
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21Section 493 and the entries relating thereto was inserted by section 25 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (Second Amendment) Ordinance, 1982 (Ordinance No. XXIV of 1982)
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Section 511 and the entries relating thereto was added by section 25 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (Second Amendment) Ordinance, 1982 (Ordinance No. XXIV of 1982) -
23The word “sent” was substituted, for the word “committed” by section 2 and Schedule of the Law Reforms Ordinance, 1978 (Ordinance No. XLIX of 1978)
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24The word “sent” was substituted, for the word “committed” by section 2 and Schedule of the Law Reforms Ordinance, 1978 (Ordinance No. XLIX of 1978)
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