INDIAN PENAL CODE, 1860
BHARATIYA NYAYA SANHITA, 2023
341. Punishment for wrongful restraint
126(2). Wrongful restraint.
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INDIAN PENAL CODE, 1860
341. Punishment for wrongful restraint.--Whoever wrongfully
restrains any person shall be punished with simple imprisonment for a
term which may extend to one month, or with fine which may extend to
five hundred rupees, or with both.
Repealed / historical reference India Code — IPC 1860
BHARATIYA NYAYA SANHITA, 2023
126. Wrongful restraint.—(1) Whoever voluntarily obstructs any person so as to prevent that person
from proceeding in any direction in which that person has a right to proceed, is said wrongfully to restrain
that person.
Exception.—The obstruction of a private way over land or water which a person in good faith
believes himself to have a lawful right to obstruct, is not an offence within the meaning of this section.
Illustration.
A obstructs a path along which Z has a right to pass, A not believing in good faith that he has a right
to stop the path. Z is thereby prevented from passing. A wrongfully restrains Z.
(2) Whoever wrongfully restrains any person shall be punished with simple imprisonment for a term
which may extend to one month, or with fine which may extend to five thousand rupees, or with both.