Chapter 19

section_number: 351
section_name: Criminal intimidation.
explanation: This section addresses threats made to cause alarm or compel someone to act against their will. Threatening another person with injury to their person, reputation, or property, with the intent to cause alarm or compel them to do something they are not legally bound to do, constitutes criminal intimidation. The punishment includes imprisonment, a fine, or both.

section_number: 352
section_name: Intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace.
explanation: Whoever intentionally insults in any manner, and thereby gives provocation to any person, intending or knowing it to be likely that such provocation will cause him to break the public peace, or to commit any other offence, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both.
BNSSClassificationImprisonment for 2 years, or fine, or both.Non-cognizableBailableTriable by Any Magistrate.


section_number: 353
section_name: Statements conducing to public mischief.
explanation: Exception:It does not amount to an offence, within the meaning of this section, when the person making, publishing or circulating any such statement, false information, rumour or report, has reasonable grounds for believing that such statement, false information, rumour or report is true and makes, publishes or circulates it in good faith and without any such intent as aforesaid.


section_number: 354
section_name: Act caused by inducing person to believe that he will be rendered an object of the Divine displeasure.
explanation: Whoever voluntarily causes or attempts to cause any person to do anything which that person is not legally bound to do, or to omit to do anything which he is legally entitled to do, by inducing or attempting to induce that person to believe that he or any person in whom he is interested will become or will be rendered by some act of the offender an object of Divine displeasure if he does not do the thing which it is the object of the offender to cause him to do, or if he does the thing which it is the object of the offender to cause him to omit, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine, or with both.
Illustrations:A sits dharna at Z’s door with the intention of causing it to be believed that, by so sitting, he renders Z an object of Divine displeasure. A has committed the offence defined in this section.A threatens Z that, unless Z performs a certain act, A will kill one of A’s own children, under such circumstances that the killing would be believed to render Z an object of Divine displeasure. A has committed the offence defined in this section.
BNSSClassificationImprisonment for 1 years, or fine, or both.Non-cognizableBailableTriable by Any Magistrate.


section_number: 355
section_name: Misconduct in public by a drunken person.
explanation: Whoever, in a state of intoxication, appears in any public place, or in any place which it is a trespass in him to enter, and there conducts himself in such a manner as to cause annoyance to any person, shall be punished with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to twenty-four hours, or with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees, or with both or with community service.
BNSSClassificationSimple imprisonment for 24 hours, or fine of 1,000 rupees, or both or with community service.Non-cognizableBailableTriable by Any Magistrate.


section_number: 356
section_name: Defamation.
explanation: This section pertains to defamation, which involves making or publishing any statement intending to harm the reputation of another person. The punishment for defamation includes simple imprisonment for up to two years, a fine, or both. ​

section_number: 357
section_name: Breach of contract to attend on and supply wants of helpless person.
explanation: Whoever, being bound by a lawful contract to attend on or to supply the wants of any person who, by reason of youth, or of mental illness, or of a disease or bodily weakness, is helpless or incapable of providing for his own safety or of supplying his own wants, voluntarily omits so to do, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three months, or with fine which may extend to five thousand rupees, or with both.
BNSSClassificationImprisonment for 3 months, or fine of 5,000 rupees, or both.Non-cognizableBailableTriable by Any Magistrate.