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Section 77: Prohibition of absconding to avoid service of summons, process, notice or order
Subsection (1)
No person, legally bound to receive a summons, process, notice, arrest warrant or order, shall abscond with mala fide intention to avoid service.
Section 77: Prohibition of absconding to avoid service of summons, process, notice or order
Subsection (2)
A person who commits the offence in sub-section (1) shall be liable to imprisonment not exceeding three months or a fine not exceeding five thousand rupees or both.
Section 78: Prohibition of tearing out or removing summons, process etc.
Subsection (1)
No person shall, with mala fide intention, tear out or remove a summons, process, arrest warrant, notice or order affixed in accordance with law until its purpose is served.
Section 78: Prohibition of tearing out or removing summons, process etc.
Subsection (2)
A person who commits, or causes to be committed, the offence in sub-section (1) shall be liable to imprisonment not exceeding six months or a fine not exceeding five thousand rupees or both.
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Section 79: Prohibition of serving process in a false manner
Subsection (1)
No person who is legally bound to serve, or cause to be served, a process shall serve the process in a false manner.
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Section 79: Prohibition of serving process in a false manner
Subsection (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 year or a fine not exceeding ten thousand rupees or both the sentences.
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Section 80: Prohibition of omission to produce document
Subsection (1)
No person who is legally bound to produce or deliver up any document to any office, court or public servant under law shall omit so to produce or deliver up such document.
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Section 80: Prohibition of omission to produce document
Subsection (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 six months or a fine not exceeding five thousand rupees or both the sentences.
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Section 81: Prohibition of making false statement by person under oath
Subsection (1)
A person who is bound by law or by an oath to state the truth on any subject to any competent authority or is a public office holder upon taking oath under law shall not, in that capacity, state any false statement.
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Section 81: Prohibition of making false statement by person under oath
Subsection (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 two years or a fine not exceeding twenty thousand rupees or both the sentences.
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Section 82: Prohibition of refusing oath
Subsection (1)
No person who is present before the competent authority to state the truth on any subject shall refuse to take an oath to state the truth on such subject when so required to take such oath.
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Section 82: Prohibition of refusing oath
Subsection (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 months or a fine not exceeding five thousand rupees or both the sentences.
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Section 83: Prohibition of refusing to answer
Subsection (1)
No person who is under a legal duty to state the truth on any subject to a competent authority shall refuse to answer any question demanded of him or her on such subject by such authority. Provided that no person shall be compelled to testify against himself or herself.
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Section 83: Prohibition of refusing to answer
Subsection (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 six months or a fine not exceeding five thousand rupees or both the sentences.
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Section 84: Prohibition of giving false information
Subsection (1)
No person shall give any false information to any one, with intent to prevent any public servant from doing any act which he or she is bound by law to do or to cause such public servant to do anything which he or she need not or ought not to do.
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Section 84: Prohibition of giving false information
Subsection (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 year or a fine not exceeding ten thousand rupees or both the sentences.
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Section 85: Prohibition of obstructing
Subsection (1)
No person shall, by way of intimidation or force or in any other way, obstruct or hinder any public servant, who is discharging his or her public duties, in the discharge of such duties.
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Section 85: Prohibition of obstructing
Subsection (2)
No person shall knowingly obstruct or hinder the process of forfeiture, collection of records, withholding, auction or sale of any property being carried out in accordance with law.
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Section 85: Prohibition of obstructing
Subsection (3)
A person who commits the offence referred to in sub-section (1) or (2) 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.
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Section 86: Prohibition of refusing to render assistance to public servant
Subsection (1)
No person under a legal duty to render assistance to a public servant in the execution of his or her public duty shall refuse to so render such assistance.
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Section 86: Prohibition of refusing to render assistance to public servant
Subsection (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 six months or a fine not exceeding five thousand rupees or both the sentences.
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Section 87: Prohibition of disobedience to order
Subsection (1)
No person shall disobey an order made by a competent authority in accordance with law, by omitting to do anything ought to be done under law or doing anything prohibited by law.
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Section 87: Prohibition of disobedience to order
Subsection (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 six months or a fine not exceeding five thousand rupees or both the sentences.
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Section 88: Statute of limitation
No complaint shall lie after the lapse of three months from the date of knowledge of the commission of any offence under Section 78, 80 or 83 and from the date of the commission of any offence under the other Sections of this Chapter.
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Chapter-4: Offences against Public Justice
Section 89: Prohibition of fabricating evidence
Subsection (1)
Except as otherwise provided in this Act, no person shall fabricate evidence, cause any circumstance to exist, forge any document or electronic record or make any false entry in any document or electronic record, with intent to use it in a judicial or other legal proceeding.
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Section 89: Prohibition of fabricating evidence
Subsection (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 and a fine not exceeding fifty thousand rupees. Provided that where a sentence of imprisonment for life has been imposed on any person on the basis of such false evidence, 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.
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Section 89: Prohibition of fabricating evidence
Subsection (3)
Notwithstanding anything contained elsewhere in this Section, no sentence shall be so imposed under this Section that the sentence is in excess of the maximum sentence that can be imposed on the offence in relation to which the evidence has been fabricated.
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Section 90: Prohibition of making or issuing false certificate
Subsection (1)
No person with authority or duty under law to submit, certify, authenticate or issue a certificate or submit an affidavit in relation to any matter shall submit, certify, authenticate or issue such certificate or submit such affidavit, knowingly setting down a false statement in such certificate or affidavit.
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Section 90: Prohibition of making or issuing false certificate
Subsection (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.
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Section 91: Prohibition of using false evidence or certificate
Subsection (1)
No person shall, knowing that any evidence or certificate is false, use, or cause to be used, as true such false evidence or certificate.
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Section 91: Prohibition of using false evidence or certificate
Subsection (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.
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Section 92: Prohibition of destroying document
Subsection (1)
No person who is under a legal duty to produce any document or electronic record as evidence in a judicial or other legal proceeding shall knowingly destroy, obliterate, render illegible such document or record, or otherwise make it incapable of being used as evidence.
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Section 92: Prohibition of destroying document
Subsection (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.
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Section 92: Prohibition of destroying document
Subsection (3)
No person shall, in contravention of law, knowingly destroy, obliterate, render illegible any document or electronic record produced in any judicial or other legal proceeding or otherwise making such document or record incapable of being used as evidence or cause it to disappear illegally or give it to another person in an unauthorized manner.
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Section 92: Prohibition of destroying document
Subsection (4)
A person who commits, or causes to be committed, the offence referred to in sub-section (3) shall be liable to a sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding four years and a fine not exceeding forty thousand rupees.
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Section 92: Prohibition of destroying document
Subsection (5)
If a public servant commits the offence referred to in sub-section (1) or (3), he or she shall be liable to double the sentence referred to in that sub-section.
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Section 93: Prohibition of concealing evidence of offence
Subsection (1)
No person shall, with intent to protect any offender, conceal or destroy any evidence relating to the offense committed by the offender or render it ineligible to be used as evidence.
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Section 93: Prohibition of concealing evidence of offence
Subsection (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.
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Section 94: Prohibition of obstructing the giving of information
Subsection (1)
No person shall restraint or otherwise obstruct or hinder a person who, upon knowing that an offence has been committed or is about to be committed, intends to give information or notice about such offence to the police or competent authority.
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Section 94: Prohibition of obstructing the giving of information
Subsection (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 or a fine not exceeding twenty thousand rupees or both the sentences.
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Section 95: Prohibition of harboring offender
Subsection (1)
No person shall knowingly harbor an offender with intent to prevent him or her from being apprehended or save him or her from a lawful sentence. Explanation: For the purposes of this Section, the term 'offender' means a person who is suspected or accused of an offence or convicted by a court of such offence.
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Section 95: Prohibition of harboring offender
Subsection (2)(a)
Sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years and a fine not exceeding fifty thousand rupees where that person has harbored the offender of an offence punishable by imprisonment for life or imprisonment for a term not exceeding twenty years.
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Section 95: Prohibition of harboring offender
Subsection (2)(b)
Sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years and a fine not exceeding thirty thousand rupees where that person has harbored the offender of an offence punishable by imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years.
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Section 95: Prohibition of harboring offender
Subsection (2)(c)
Sentence of imprisonment or fine not exceeding one fourth of the maximum term of imprisonment or amount of fine or both the sentences imposable for the offence where that person has harbored the offender of the offence other than that mentioned in clause (a) or (b).
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Section 95: Prohibition of harboring offender
Subsection (3)
Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), no offence referred to in this Section shall be considered to have been committed where the offender's husband or wife or father, mother, son, daughter, elder brother, younger brother, elder sister, younger sister, grand-father, grand-mother, grand-son, grand-daughter, mother-in-law, father-in-law, daughter-in-law or son-in-law has harbored the offender.
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Section 96: Obligation to give information of commission of offence
Subsection (1)
No person under a legal duty to give information regarding any offence shall, knowing that such offence has been or is going to be committed, omit to give information of such offence or no person who knows the commission of any offence shall intentionally give false information about that offence.
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Section 96: Obligation to give information of commission of offence
Subsection (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 or a fine not exceeding twenty thousand rupees or both the sentences.
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Section 97: Prohibition of concealment of property or fraudulent claim to property
Subsection (1)
No person shall fraudulently conceal, transfer or deliver to any person, or cause to be concealed, transferred or delivered, any property, or right in such property, which is liable to be forfeited, withheld, auctioned, sold or enforced or inventory of which is to be taken pursuant to a decision of a court or competent authority, intending thereby to prevent that property or right from being so forfeited, withheld, auctioned, sold or enforced or make a claim to such property or right therein.
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Section 97: Prohibition of concealment of property or fraudulent claim to property
Subsection (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 or a fine not exceeding twenty thousand rupees or both the sentences.
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Section 98: Prohibition of making false complaint
Subsection (1)
No person shall, with intent to injure or annoy any person, make a false claim or accusation or give false information against such person before or to an authority making judicial proceeding.
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Section 98: Prohibition of making false complaint
Subsection (2)
A person who commits, or causes to be committed, the offence referred to in sub-section (1) shall be liable to half the maximum sentence imposable for the offence in respect of which such false accusation has been made. Provided that this Section shall not apply to any case in which the Government of Nepal is plaintiff.
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Section 98: Prohibition of making false complaint
Subsection (3)
Where the offence referred to in sub-section (1) has resulted in any kind of harm or loss to a person who is a victim of such offence, compensation for such harm or loss shall be recovered from the offender to the victim.
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Section 99: Prohibition of making investigation or prosecution maliciously
Subsection (1)
No authority responsible by law for making investigation or prosecution shall make investigation or prosecution maliciously, with intent to have an innocent person bear liability or to save the real offender.
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Section 99: Prohibition of making investigation or prosecution maliciously
Subsection (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 six months or a fine not exceeding five thousand rupees or both the sentences.
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Section 99: Prohibition of making investigation or prosecution maliciously
Subsection (3)
Where any person suffers any kind of harm or loss from the offence referred to in sub-section (1), he or she shall be entitled to get compensation from such offender.
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Chapter-3: Offences Relating to Contempt of Authority of Public Servants
Section 100: Prohibition of failure to appear in violation of terms and conditions of guarantee: 
(1) No person who has been charged with an offence and released on guarantee shall fail, without a reasonable cause, to appear in the office or court to which guarantee is given in accordance with the terms and conditions of such guarantee. Explanation: For the purpose of this Section, “guarantee” means cash, bank guarantee or personal guarantee.
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Section 100: Prohibition of failure to appear in violation of terms and conditions of guarantee: 
Subsection (2)
A person who commits the offence referred to in subsection (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.
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Section 100: Prohibition of failure to appear in violation of terms and conditions of guarantee: 
Subsection (3)
Where a person who fails to so appear under this Section is convicted of the offence with which he or she has been charged shall be liable to the additional sentence under this Section, in addition to the sentence imposable on him or her for such offence.
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Section 100: Prohibition of failure to appear in violation of terms and conditions of guarantee: 
Subsection (4)
Where a person who is released on personal guarantee in accordance with law fails to appear in the office or court in accordance with such guarantee, the person giving such guarantee shall be liable to a sentence of fine not exceeding fifty thousand rupees.
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Section 100: Prohibition of failure to appear in violation of terms and conditions of guarantee: 
Subsection (5)
A person who has been sentenced under this Section shall not be eligible to become a surety without security until three years.
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Section 101: Prohibition of obstructing apprehension or escaping from custody:
 (1) No person for whose apprehension an arrest warrant has been issued shall knowingly make any obstruction, by using force, in the course of apprehension or to the apprehension of himself or herself or to escape from apprehension if already apprehended or no person who is lawfully detained in custody shall escape or attempt to escape from such custody.
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Section 101: Prohibition of obstructing apprehension or escaping from custody:
Subsection (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.
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Chapter-3: Offences Relating to Contempt of Authority of Public Servants
Section 102: Prohibition of obstructing apprehension or rescuing from custody: 
(1) No person shall intentionally make obstruction in the course of apprehension of or to the apprehension of any other person for whose apprehension an arrest warrant has been issued in accordance with law or rescue such other person from apprehension if already apprehended or intentionally escape or aid in the escape of a person who is lawfully detained in custody from such custody.
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Chapter-3: Offences Relating to Contempt of Authority of Public Servants
Section 102: Prohibition of obstructing apprehension or rescuing from custody: 
Subsection (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.
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Section 102: Prohibition of obstructing apprehension or rescuing from custody: 
Subsection (3)
If any public servant commits or causes to be committed the offence referred to in sub-section (1), he or she shall be liable to double the sentence specified in sub-section (2).
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Section 103: Statute of limitation: 
(1) There shall be no statute of limitation formaking a complaint in relation to any of the offences referred to in Section 101 or 102.
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Section 103: Statute of limitation: 
Subsection (2)
No complaint shall lie after the lapse of three months from the date of commission of the offence under Section 100 and from the date of knowledge of the commission of any of the other offences under this Chapter.
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Chapter-5: Offences against Public Interest, Health, Safety,
Section 104: Prohibition of spreading infectious disease: 
(1) No person shall doany act that spreads or is likely to spread any kind of infectious disease which is dangerous to life of any one.
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Section 104: Prohibition of spreading infectious disease: 
Subsection (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 ten years and a fine not exceeding one hundred thousand rupees, if the offence has been committed intentionally or knowingly, to a sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years and a fine not exceeding fifty thousand rupees, if the offence has been committed recklessly, and to a sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years and a fine not exceeding thirty thousand rupees, if the offence has been committed negligently.
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Section 105: Prohibition of transmitting human immuno-deficiency virus(HIV positive):
 (1) No person, knowing that his or her own body or any other's body contains human immuno-deficiency virus (HIV positive) or the virus of Hepatitis B, shall with intent to transmit such disease to another person, donate his or her blood to such person or cause the donation of such other person's blood or have sexual intercourse with any one without taking any kind of precaution or transfuse in any way his or her or such person's blood, semen, saliva, sputum or human organ into other's body.
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Section 105: Prohibition of transmitting human immuno-deficiency virus(HIV positive):
Subsection (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 ten years and a fine not exceeding one hundred thousand rupees. Provided that where such disease has got transmitted with negligence or recklessness, failing any intent to transmit it, 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.
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Chapter-5: Offences against Public Interest, Health, Safety,
Section 105: Prohibition of transmitting human immuno-deficiency virus(HIV positive):
Subsection (3)
Where the victim himself or herself has solicited and established sexual intercourse with a person having the human immuno-deficiency virus or the virus of Hepatitis B, the person having the infection of such virus shall not be considered to have committed the offence referred to in this Section.
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Section 106: Prohibition of violating law relating to communicable disease:
(1) No person shall violate any rule, directive or order relating to communicable diseases issued by the Government of Nepal, State Government or Local Level or the competent authority under law.
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Section 106: Prohibition of violating law relating to communicable disease:
Subsection (2)
(1) 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 six months or a fine not exceeding five thousand rupees or both the sentences. Provided that where any violation of such rule, directive or order is likely to cause the death of a person, the offender shall be liable to the sentence under Section 104.
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Section 107: Prohibition of adulteration of food: 
(1) No person shall produce any food or drink to be consumed by the public by mixing into it any injurious substance that is inedible, undrinkable or inconsumable or any substance that is edible, drinkable or consumable but substandard or any injurious chemical substance, or sell or distribute it or sell or distribute any food of which expiry date has expired or which is adulterated or sell, distribute, import or offer for sale or distribution any food of standard falling short of the prescribed standard or inedible substance.
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Section 107: Prohibition of adulteration of food: 
Subsection (2)
Any 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 and a fine not exceeding fifty thousand rupees.
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Section 108: Prohibition of selling, distributing food by misrepresentation:
(1) No person shall sell or distribute any food, lying or misrepresenting that it is a different food or that a food which is of low quality or inedible is a food of high quality, or mixing any food substance of low standard or inedible food substance into any food substance of high quality
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Chapter-5: Offences against Public Interest, Health, Safety,
Section 108: Prohibition of selling, distributing food by misrepresentation:
Subsection (2)
(1) 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.
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Section 109: Prohibition of selling or distributing goods by misrepresentation
Subsection (1)
misrepresenting that such good is original one or any good by causing to believe that it is a different good or any good so adulterated as to degrade its quality or change a label on any good or sell any good of which the date of expiry has expired.
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Section 109: Prohibition of selling or distributing goods by misrepresentation
Subsection (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.
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Chapter-5: Offences against Public Interest, Health, Safety,
Section 110: Prohibition of hoarding consumable goods intended for sale:
(1) No person shall increase the price of any consumable goods by creating an artificial shortage of such goods in the market or sell, or cause to be sold, such goods at higher price or dump, store or hoard such goods by refraining from selling such goods with the motive of making undue profit from the sale of such goods.
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Chapter-5: Offences against Public Interest, Health, Safety,
Section 110: Prohibition of hoarding consumable goods intended for sale:
Subsection (2)
(1) 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 and a fine not exceeding fifty thousand rupees.
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Chapter-5: Offences against Public Interest, Health, Safety,
Section 111: Prohibition of fouling water: 
(1) No person shall foul the water tobe consumed by the public or the water of any public spring so as to render it unfit for drinking or foul the water to be used for any purpose other than drinking so as to render it unfit for that purpose.
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Chapter-5: Offences against Public Interest, Health, Safety,
Section 111: Prohibition of fouling water: 
Subsection (2)
A person who commits, or causes to be committed, the offence referred to in sub-section (1) shall be liable to the sentence as follows: (a) Imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years or a fine not exceeding thirty thousand rupees or both the sentences, in the case of a person who fouls, or causes to be fouled, drinking water or its spring, (b) Imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or a fine not exceeding five thousand rupees or both the sentences, in the case of a person who fouls, or causes to be fouled, water to be used for other purpose.
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Chapter-5: Offences against Public Interest, Health, Safety,
Section 112: Prohibition of polluting environment: 
(1) No person shallgenerate, transmit, release or stockpile wastages in such a manner as to cause significant adverse impact on the environment.
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Chapter-5: Offences against Public Interest, Health, Safety,
Section 112: Prohibition of polluting environment: 
Subsection (2)
No person shall cause pollution in such a manner as to cause injury to public health or danger to body or life of the public, or generate, transmit, emit or stockpile, sound, heat or radioactive wave or hazardous waste, as the case may be, from a mechanical device.
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Chapter-5: Offences against Public Interest, Health, Safety,
Section 112: Prohibition of polluting environment:
Subsection (3)
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.
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Chapter-5: Offences against Public Interest, Health, Safety,
Section 112: Prohibition of polluting environment: 
Subsection (4)
A person who commits, or causes to be committed, the offence referred to in sub-section (2) 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.
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Chapter-5: Offences against Public Interest, Health, Safety,
Section 113: Prohibition of causing danger or obstruction in public way, river or place: 
(1) No person shall, by doing any act or by omitting to take order with or maintain any property of him or her or under his or her control or charge, cause danger, obstruction or hindrance to any one in any public way, river or other public place.
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Chapter-5: Offences against Public Interest, Health, Safety,
Section 113: Prohibition of causing danger or obstruction in public way, riveror place: 
Subsection (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 a fine not exceeding twenty-five thousand rupees.
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Chapter-5: Offences against Public Interest, Health, Safety,
Section 114: Prohibition of reckless conduct in using toxic or explosive substance: 
(1) No person shall do, in the operation or with the use of any explosive substance or fire or inflammable substance, explosive substance or deadly weapon or machine, any act so recklessly as to endanger or to be likely to cause injury to human body or life or knowingly or recklessly omit to make such arrangement with such substance of him or her or under his or her possession or charge as is necessary to prevent any probable danger to human life.
National Penal Code 2017
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Chapter-5: Offences against Public Interest, Health, Safety,
Section 114: Prohibition of reckless conduct in using toxic or explosive substance: 
Subsection (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.
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Chapter-5: Offences against Public Interest, Health, Safety,
Section 115: Prohibition of recklessness conduct with respect to constructing,demolishing or repairing buildings: 
(1) No person shall, in constructing, demolishing or repairing a building, knowingly or recklessly omits to take such arrangement with that building as is necessary to guard against or prevent any probable danger to cause death of or grievous hurt to any one from such act or from the fall or collapse of that building or any part thereof.
National Penal Code 2017
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Chapter-5: Offences against Public Interest, Health, Safety,
Section 115: Prohibition of recklessness conduct with respect to constructing,demolishing or repairing buildings: 
Subsection (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.
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Chapter-5: Offences against Public Interest, Health, Safety,
Section 116: Prohibition of reckless conduct with respect to animals and birds: 
(1) No person shall, in keeping or caring and cultivating any violent or other animal or bird of him or her or under his or her control or custody, knowingly or recklessly omits to take such precautionary measure with that animal or bird as is necessary to guard against or prevent any probable danger to cause death of or grievous hurt to any one from such act or from such animal or bird.
National Penal Code 2017
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Chapter-5: Offences against Public Interest, Health, Safety,
Section 116: Prohibition of reckless conduct with respect to animals andbirds: 
Subsection (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.
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Chapter-5: Offences against Public Interest, Health, Safety,
Section 117: Prohibition of setting animal free: 
(1) No person shall set anyanimal or bird of him or her or under his or her custody or control free to other's house or land, public road or way or public place.
National Penal Code 2017
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Chapter-5: Offences against Public Interest, Health, Safety,
Section 117: Prohibition of setting animal free: 
Subsection (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.
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Chapter-5: Offences against Public Interest, Health, Safety,
Section 118: Prohibition of indecent conduct: 
(1) No person shall enter into apublic place or any place where he or she has no legal right to enter into and behave any one indecently or manhandle or annoy any woman, child or person with physical disability in any public place or attempt to do such act.
National Penal Code 2017
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Chapter-5: Offences against Public Interest, Health, Safety,
Section 118: Prohibition of indecent conduct: 
Subsection (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.
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Chapter-5: Offences against Public Interest, Health, Safety,
Section 119: Prohibition of soliciting prostitution: 
(1) No person shall solicit prostitution.
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Chapter-5: Offences against Public Interest, Health, Safety,
Section 119: Prohibition of soliciting prostitution: 
Subsection (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.
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Chapter-5: Offences against Public Interest, Health, Safety,
Section 120: Prohibition of providing house, land to be used for prostitution or sexual intercourse with prostitute: 
(1) No person shall knowingly provide his or her house, land or means of transport for the purpose of prostitution or having sexual intercourse with a prostitute.
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Chapter-5: Offences against Public Interest, Health, Safety,
Section 120: Prohibition of providing house, land to be used for prostitution or sexual intercourse with prostitute: 
Subsection (2)
A person who commits the offence referred to in subsection (1) shall be liable to a sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or a fine not exceeding five thousand rupees or both the sentences.
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Chapter-5: Offences against Public Interest, Health, Safety,
Section 121: Prohibition of producing or selling obscene books, pamphlets etc: 
(1) No person shall commit any of the following acts, including producing any obscene book, pamphlet publicly: (a) Producing, printing or publishing or circulating through electronic media any obscene book, pamphlet, drawing, film, picture, record or any other item which is lascivious (increases physical libido) or appeals to the prurient interest or makes characterless, (b) Purchasing, selling, distributing or letting to hire or publicly exhibiting such obscene item or holding such item with intent to do so, (c) Advertising that such obscene item is available from any person in this way, (d) Exporting or importing or holding such obscene item with intent to sell, distribute it.
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Chapter-5: Offences against Public Interest, Health, Safety,
Section 121: Prohibition of producing or selling obscene books, pamphlets etc: 
Subsection (2)
A person who commits the offence referred to in subsection (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.
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Chapter-5: Offences against Public Interest, Health, Safety,
Section 121: Prohibition of producing or selling obscene books, pamphlets etc: 
Subsection (3)
Notwithstanding anything contained elsewhere in this Section, the provision of this Section shall not apply to any work which is in the interest of, or which is of importance from the perspective of, science, education, art, literature, research or learning or which is kept or made for a religious purpose.
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Chapter-5: Offences against Public Interest, Health, Safety,
Section 122: Prohibition of showing sexual organ in public place: 
(1) No person above ten years of age shall, except for the purpose of medical sciences or treatment, do any obscene act or conduct or show his or her sexual organ or utter or make any obscene words or gesture to any one in a public place.
National Penal Code 2017
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Chapter-5: Offences against Public Interest, Health, Safety,
Section 122: Prohibition of showing sexual organ in public place: 
Subsection (2)
A person who commits the offence referred to in subsection (1) shall be liable to a sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or a fine not exceeding five thousand rupees or both the sentences.
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Chapter-5: Offences against Public Interest, Health, Safety,
Section 123: Prohibition of having sexual intercourse in public place: 
(1) No person shall have sexual intercourse with any one or any kind of unnatural sexual intercourse in a public place, or in any other place in a manner that such intercourse is visible to others.
National Penal Code 2017
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Chapter-5: Offences against Public Interest, Health, Safety,
Section 123: Prohibition of having sexual intercourse in public place: 
Subsection (2)
A person who commits the offence referred to in subsection (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.
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Chapter-5: Offences against Public Interest, Health, Safety,
Section 124: Prohibition of committing public nuisance: 
(1) Except asotherwise provided in a law, no person shall do any act or omit to do any act legally required to be done, which causes any kind of harm, injury, danger or annoyance to the public or to the people who dwell in the vicinity.
National Penal Code 2017
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Chapter-5: Offences against Public Interest, Health, Safety,
Section 124: Prohibition of committing public nuisance: 
Subsection (2)
A person who commits the offence referred to in subsection (1) shall be liable to a sentence of fine not exceeding twentyfive thousand rupees.
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Chapter-5: Offences against Public Interest, Health, Safety,
Section 125: Prohibition of gambling or betting: 
(1) No person shall gamble orcause gambling.
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Chapter-5: Offences against Public Interest, Health, Safety,
Section 125: Prohibition of gambling or betting: 
Subsection (2)
A person who commits the offence referred to in subsection (1) shall be liable to the sentence as follows: (a) Imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or a fine not exceeding thirty thousand rupees, in the case of one who gambles or causes any one to gamble for the first time, (b) Imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year and a fine not exceeding fifty thousand rupees, in the case of one who gambles or causes any one to gamble for the second time, and additional sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months and a fine not exceeding ten thousand rupees for every subsequent offence. Explanation: For the purposes of this Act,-
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Chapter-5: Offences against Public Interest, Health, Safety,
Section 125: Prohibition of gambling or betting: 
Subsection (1)
"gambling" means a game or process of any type to be so played by betting as to gain, lose or win any kind of movable or immovable property or return, on the basis of contingency, and this term also includes any betting or waging so made by one who does not gamble himself or herself as to gain or lose any movable, immovable property or return depending on the win or loss of others. Provided that any of the following games or programs shall not be considered to be gambling: (a) A game so played, with the approval of the Government of Nepal, for entertainment in a public ceremony, fair, feast, festival, exhibition or event that a small amount of movable property is won or lost, (b) A lottery operated with the approval of the authorized authority.