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National Penal (Code) Act, 2017

Prohibition of making or using artificial explosives: (1) No person shall alter or modify any ordinary consumable goods to be used or consumed by the public or physical or chemical characters of such goods, through any physical or chemical process, formula, measure or method or change the form, structure or shape thereof, and use or caused to be used, the same as a bomb of any type or any other explosives. (2) A person who commits the offence referred to in sub for such injury or loss. 142. Obligation to maintain records of production or transaction: (1) A person who has obtained a licence for the production or transaction of explosives shall, in producing, manufacturing, preparing or transacting such explosives, maintain separate records of every production or transaction of every explosive. (2) The records referred to in sub-section (1) shall set out, _inter alia_, the following matters: (a) Type, description and quantity of the explosives produced, prepared or manufactured, transaction of explosives shall, in using, carrying, transporting or stockpiling such explosives, so use such explosives as to ensure adequate safety according to the nature of such explosives or carry, transport or stockpile such explosives, having kept them in appropriate magazines. (2) A person who does, or causes to be done, any act contrary to sub-section (1) shall be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty thousand rupees. 144. Forfeiture of movable or immovable property related to offence: In the event of the commission of any offence referred to in this shall be forfeited. forfeited. months from the date of commission of any of the offences under Section 143 and after the expiry of six months from the date of knowledge of commission of any of the other offences under this Chapter. Chapter-8 Offences against National and Public Heritages 147. Prohibition of owning public building, land by individual: (1) No person shall, without prior approval of the Government of Nepal or State Government or Local Level, obtain ownership of the following has already been registered in, or transmitted to, the name of any individual, such registration or transmission also shall, _ipso facto_, be void. 148. Prohibition of owning public heritage by individual: (1) No person shall obtain the ownership of any public heritage, whether making its registration or not, or hinder or obstruct, in any way, the public possession or use of, or otherwise occupy, cultivate or encroach such heritage, or cause harm, loss or damage to such heritage in any way. Explanation: For the purposes of this Section, the term “public heritage” means any of the following heritages: monument or memorial, (g) A place for organizing religious or cultural functions or ceremonies, (h) A national forest designated by the Government of Nepal or forest, or any part thereof, under ownership of the Government of Nepal, State Government or Local Level. National Penal (Code) Act, 2017
National Penal (Code) Act, 2017

(2) A person who commits, or causes to be committed, the offence referred to in sub-section (1) shall be liable to a sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years or a fine not exceeding fifty thousand rupees or both the sentences. (3) Where any public heritage referred to in sub-section (1) void. way. Nepal, river, rivulet, stream, lake, wetland or natural water-fall, snow-peak or any part thereof, higher mountain peak, (c) A wildlife, vegetation or landscape protected by the law in force or the Government of Nepal, State Government or Local Level, (d) A habitat of wildlife protected by the Government of Nepal, State Government or Local Level, eco-system, or any medicinal herb which is prohibited for sale, distribution, export or import. (2) A person who commits, or causes to be committed, the the sentences. in any way. pond, power house, electricity transmission center or line thereof, (c) A ropeway, cable car, telecommunication equipment, radio station, television broadcasting center and tower thereof, (d) A rail and railway; (e) A public bus station, public park, or (f) Similar other structure. (2) A person who commits, or causes to be committed, the exceeding one hundred thousand rupees. the coat-of-arms of such country or use such flag or coat-of-arms at such place, on such object or condition as it is not appropriate for its use in view of public morality, decency or courtesy. (4) No person shall, with intent to make hatred against or dishonor the United Nations Organization or any organization associated with, or specialized agency of, the United Nations Organization or any international or regional organization of which Nepal is a member, misuse in any way the flag or emblem of such Organization, or use such flag or logo, motor vehicle or other object of such Organization without approval of such Organization. figure/hero . caused from the commission of any offence referred to in Section 150, reasonable compensation for such harm or loss shall be ordered to be paid by the offender. 154. Statute of limitation : There shall be no statute of limitation for filing a complaint in relation to any of the offences under Sections 147, 148 and 149, and no complaint shall lie after the expiry of six months from the date of commission of any of the offences under the other Sections of this Chapter. Chapter-9 Offences Relating to Religion 155. Prohibition of injuring shrines or places held sacred: (1) No person shall damage or injure or, in any way, defile, destroy or pollute any place of religious worship, pray or function or place, (2) A person who commits, or causes to be committed, the offence referred to in sub-section (1) shall be liable to a sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years and a fine not exceeding twenty thousand rupees. 157. National Penal (Code) Act, 2017
National Penal (Code) Act, 2017

Prohibition of causing obstruction to religious rites and rituals : (1) No person shall knowingly cause obstruction to other's religious rites and rituals that are handed down or being followed from the time immemorial. (2) A person who commits, or causes to be committed, the exceeding ten thousand rupees or both the sentences. of the service of imprisonment imposed under this Section. 159. Statute of limitation: No complaint shall lie after the expiry of six months from the date of knowledge of commission of the offence under Section 158 and from the date of commission of any of the other offences under this Chapter. Chpater-10 Offences Relating to Discrimination and Other Degrading Treatment 160. Prohibition of making discriminatory treatment : (1) Except as otherwise provided by laws, no authority who exercises power under law shall, in the exercise of such power or a general law, particular goods or services to only any person belonging to any particular caste, race or community, for the protection of interest and development of a class which is economically, socially or educationally backward, such person shall not be considered to have committed the offence under this Section. (2) A person who commits, or causes to be committed, the offence referred to in sub-section (1) shall be liable to a sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or a fine not exceeding ten thousand rupees or both the sentences. law. imprisonment for a term of five to ten years and a fine of fifty thousand to one hundred thousand rupees. 164. Prohibition of serfdom or debt bonded labour : (1) No person shall subject any one to, or hold any one in, serfdom or debt bonded labour for any kind of consideration or employ any one in the status of serfdom or bonded labour, or subject, or cause to be subjected, him or her to any other kind of treatment similar thereto. (2) A person who commits, or causes to be committed, the offence referred to in sub-section (1) shall be liable to a sentence of imprisonment for a term from three to seven years and a fine from thirty thousand to one hundred thousand rupees. pond in public use or of the use of things of any other private or public utility or convenience, on the grounds of custom, tradition, religion, culture, rites or rituals, caste, race, community, profession, occupation, physical condition or origin of social community. (2) A person who commits, or causes to be committed, the offence referred to in sub-section (1) shall be liable to a sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years or a fine not exceeding thirty thousand rupees or both the sentences, and if a public servant commits the offence referred to in this Section, he or term not exceeding three months. National Penal (Code) Act, 2017
National Penal (Code) Act, 2017

(a) To get information on any matter, (b) To extort confession of any offence, (c) To punish for any act, (d) To show fear, intimidation or coercion, or (e) To do any other act contrary to law. (2) A person who commits the offence referred to in sub section (1) shall be liable to a sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years or a fine not exceeding fifty thousand rupees or both the sentences, according to the gravity of the offence. offence. (b) To expel one from his or her place of residence in accusation of being a witch, (c) To ex-communicate one from the society, or (d) To make cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment by doing any other act whatsoever. (2) A person who commits the offence referred to in sub section (1) shall be liable to a sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years and a fine not exceeding fifty thousand rupees. 170. Statute of limitation : (1) There shall be no statute of limitation for making a complaint in relation to any of the offences referred to in Sections 163 and 164. (2) No complaint shall lie after the expiry of six months from the date of commission of the offence referred to in Section 167 or from the date of release of the concerned person from arrest, control, custody, detention, imprisonment or preventive detention and from the date of knowledge of commission of any of the other offences referred to in this Chapter. Chapter-11 Offences Relating to Marriage 171. Prohibition of concluding marriage without consent : (1) No marriage shall be concluded, or caused to be concluded, without the consent of the persons getting married. sub-section (1) shall be void. rupees. (3) Where a marriage referred to in sub-section (1) has been concluded knowingly, the person concluding such marriage shall be liable to the sentence imposable for the offence of incest and a person causing the conclusion of such marriage shall be liable to a sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or a fine not exceeding three thousand rupees or both the sentences, and such marriage shall, _ipso facto_, be void. 173. Prohibition of concluding child marriage : (1) No marriage shall be concluded or cause to be concluded unless parties to the marriage have attained twenty years of age. (1) shall, _ipso facto_, be void. rupees. (3) No person shall, after the conclusion of marriage, ask the bride or her relative for any movable, immovable property or dowry referred to in sub-section (1), or make, in any way, any annoyance, harassment or inhuman or degrading treatment to the bride or her relative for the reason that such movable, immovable property or dowry has not been given. National Penal (Code) Act, 2017
National Penal (Code) Act, 2017

(4) A person who commits the offence referred to in sub section (3) shall be liable to a sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years or a fine not exceeding fifty thousand rupees or both the sentences. concerned person. _facto_, be void. (6) Notwithstanding anything contained elsewhere in this Section, nothing contained in this Section shall be deemed to have effect on any marriage concluded in accordance with the law in force for the time being prior to the commencement of this Act. 176. Statute of limitation: No complaint on any offence under this Chapter shall lie after the expiry of three months from the date of knowledge of the commission of the offence. Chapter-12 Offences Relating to Human Body 177. Prohibition of doing act with the intention of causing death (homicide): (1) No person shall intentionally kill, or do, or cause to be done, any act causing the death of, another person. person. 179. Prohibition of causing death by grave provocation or in heat of passion : (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in Section 177 or 178, a person who causes the death of another person in any of the following circumstances shall be liable to a sentence of imprisonment for a term of ten to fifteen years and a fine of one hundred thousand to one hundred fifty thousand rupees: (a) Where the offender, while being deprived of the power of self-control by grave and sudden provocation, causes the death of the person who gave such provocation, following circumstance: other person upon being so provoked causes the death of any person. right of private defence exceeds the limit of such power and causes the death of the person against whom he or she is exercising such right of private defence, (c) Where death is caused instantly in the heat of passion upon a sudden quarrel, Provided that while doing any act referred to in this clause, the offender must not have taken an undue advantage or acted in a cruel or unusual manner. (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in clauses (b) and (c) of sub-section (1), the provisions contained in these premeditation or deliberate afterthought. case may be. 182. Prohibition of causing death by negligence: (1) Except in the case referred to in Section 179, no person shall cause the death of any one by doing a negligent act. (2) A person who commits the offence referred to in sub section (1) shall be liable to a sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years and a fine not exceeding thirty thousand rupees. (3) Except in the case referred to in sub-section (1), if any attempt to murder. (2) A person who commits, or causes to be committed, the offence referred to in sub-section (1) shall be liable to a sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years and a fine not exceeding thirty thousand rupees. National Penal (Code) Act, 2017
National Penal (Code) Act, 2017

(3) If the offence referred to in sub-section (1) causes the death of such child, disabled patient or elderly person, the offender shall be liable to a sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding seven years and a fine not exceeding seventy thousand rupees. act. rupees. 187. Statute of limitation : (1) There shall be no statute of limitation for making a complaint in relation to any of the offences under Sections 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, and proviso to sub-section (3) of Section 184. (2) No complaint shall lie after the expiry of six months from the date of knowledge of the commission of any of the offences under this Chapter other than those set forth in sub-section (1). Chapter-13 Offences against Protection of Pregnancy 188. Prohibition of abortion: (1) No person shall, except in the case referred to in Section 189, commit abortion, or do any act with intent to cause, or with the knowledge that, or having reason to believe that, such act is likely to cause, abortion. five years and a fine not exceeding fifty thousand rupees in the case of pregnancy of more than twenty-five weeks. (4) If the pregnancy is not terminated at once by an act of abortion and the child born alive but the child dies immediately after birth as the consequence of such act, such act shall, for the purposes of this Section, be deemed to constitute the offence of abortion. (5) If an act done by a person in making attempt to cause the death of a pregnant woman does not cause the death of the woman but causes the termination of her pregnancy of twenty-five weeks or more, the offender shall be liable to a sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years, in addition to the sentence to be imposed under this Act or other law. identification. (8) A person who commits the offence referred to in sub section (7) shall be liable to: (a) A sentence of imprisonment for a term of three months to six months, in the case of the offence of identifying, or causing identification of, the sex of the foetus with the intention of causing abortion, and (b) A sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding rape or incest is terminated with the consent of the pregnant woman, (d) The pregnancy of a woman with human immune deficiency virus (HIV) or other incurable disease of similar nature is terminated with her consent. Explanation : For the purposes of this Section, the term "health worker" means a doctor or health worker who, upon having the specified qualification, has obtained a license for causing abortion. 190. Statute of limitation: No complaint shall lie after the expiry of six under this Chapter. Chapter-14 Offences Relating to Hurt or Grievous Hurt 191. Prohibition of causing hurt: (1) No person shall cause hurt to another person. National Penal (Code) Act, 2017
National Penal (Code) Act, 2017

person shall be deemed to cause hurt: consequences, that person is deemed to have committed the offence of causing grievous hurt to that other person: (a) Making blind by making privation of the sight of, or by breaking, either eye, (b) Privation of smelling power of the nose, (c) Privation of hearing power of either ear, (d) Privation of speaking power of the tongue, (e) Cutting of woman's breast, (f) Emasculation of man and woman (making woman infertile or man impotent), as to restore the organ, the offender shall be liable to a sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years and a fine not exceeding thirty thousand rupees. 193. Prohibition of causing disfigurement by use of acid or other chemical, biological or toxin substance: (1) No person shall cause bodily pain to another person by administering acid or similar kind of other chemical, biological or toxin substance to, or throwing such substance on, that other person, or by burning, maiming, strolling the face or any part of the body of that other person. thousand rupees or both the sentences in the case of a grievous hurt, and to a sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or a fine not exceeding ten thousand rupees or both the sentences in the case of any other kind of hurt: (a) Where the offender, while being deprived of the power of self-control by grave and sudden provocation, causes hurt to the person who gave such provocation or to any other person by a mistake of fact or happens to cause injury to another person by accident. following circumstance: that other person upon being so provoked causes hurt to any person. right of private defence exceeds the limit of such power and causes injury to any person, of passion upon a sudden quarrel, Provided that while doing any act referred to in this clause, the offender must not have taken an undue advantage or acted in a cruel or unusual manner. (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in clauses (b) and (c) of sub-section (1), the provisions contained in these clauses shall not be applicable to any case of hurt or grievous hurt caused with premeditation or deliberate afterthought. 195. Prohibition of causing hurt or grievous hurt by recklessness or injury to any one by doing a reckless or negligent act. or both the sentences in the case of the commission of such offence by a negligent act. criminal force to another person. National Penal (Code) Act, 2017
National Penal (Code) Act, 2017

(2) A person shall be considered to use criminal force to another person if he or she does any of the following acts: (a) To use any kind of force to that other person with the intention of committing an offence, (b) To use force to that other person with the intention of causing, or knowing it to be likely that the use of such force will cause, injury, fear or annoyance to that other person or his or her family or property, a weapon, and to a sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or a fine not exceeding ten thousand rupees or both the sentences, in the case of using criminal force without carrying a weapon. 197. Prohibition of making unconscious with intent to commit offence: (1) No person shall, with intent to facilitate the commission of any offence, feed or administer, in any other manner, to another person any substance causing unconsciousness, dizziness or unhealthiness or make that other person unconscious in any manner whatsoever. offences referred to in this Chapter, after the expiry of one year from the date of its commission. Chapter-15 Offences Relating to Unlawful Detention 200. Prohibition of unlawful confinement: (1) No person shall maliciously subject, or cause to be subjected, another person to detention in any other manner except in accordance with law. rupees. (2) A person who commits the offence referred to in sub section (1) shall be liable to a sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding one and half years and a fine not exceeding fifteen thousand rupees. 202. Prohibition of detaining person for whose release order has been issued: (1) No person shall keep on detaining any person held in detention in accordance with law after receiving an order issued by a competent authority under law for the release of such person from detention. months from the date of commission of such offence, and in the case of any of the other offences under this Chapter, after the expiry of three months from the date of release of the detained person from such detention. Chapter-16 Offences Relating to Enforced Disappearance 206. Prohibition of enforced appearance: (1) No person shall subject, or cause to be subjected, any one to enforced disappearance. disappearance” means any of the following acts: organization or group, whether organized or not, followed by concealment of information to the concerned person as to the reason for such deprivation and where, how and in what condition such person has been so held, (3) A person who orders the commission of enforced disappearance of a person upon arrest, detention or control of such person and a person who implements such order shall be considered to be the principal offender of enforced disappearance. (4) Where an act of enforced disappearance is committed in pursuance of order or direction given by a person holding public office or by the responsible person of an organization or group, disappearance. National Penal (Code) Act, 2017