CHAPTER 16 (OF OFFENCES RELATING TO RELIGION)

Find all the sections of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 under CHAPTER XVI (OF OFFENCES RELATING TO RELIGION)

Section 302: Uttering words, etc., with deliberate intent to wound religious feelings of any person.

Whoever, with the deliberate intention of wounding the religious feelings of any person, utters any word or makes any sound in the hearing of that person or makes any gesture in the sight of that person or places any object in the sight of that person, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for […]

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Section 299: Deliberate and malicious acts, intended to outrage religious feelings of any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs.

Whoever, with deliberate and malicious intention of outraging the religious feelings of any class of citizens of India, by words, either spoken or written, or by signs or by visible representations or through electronic means or otherwise, insults or attempts to insult the religion or the religious beliefs of that class, shall be punished with

Section 299: Deliberate and malicious acts, intended to outrage religious feelings of any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs. Read More »

Section 298: Injuring or defiling place of worship, with intent to insult the religion of any class.

Whoever destroys, damages or defiles any place of worship, or any object held sacred by any class of persons with the intention of thereby insulting the religion of any class of persons or with the knowledge that any class of persons is likely to consider such destruction, damage or defilement as an insult to their

Section 298: Injuring or defiling place of worship, with intent to insult the religion of any class. Read More »

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