IPC Section 271 — Disobedience to quarantine rule

Summary

A person who deliberately breaks a government rule about quarantining a ship, or about how ships in quarantine can interact with the shore or other ships, or about how people or goods can move between places where a contagious disease is present and other places, can be sent to jail for up to six months, or fined, or both.

Official Text

Whoever knowingly disobeys any rule made and promulgated by the Government for putting any vessel into a state of quarantine, or for regulating the intercourse of vessels in a state of quarantine with the shore or with other vessels, for regulating the intercourse between places where an infectious disease prevails and other places, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine, or with both.

Related Judgments

• VINOD DUA v. UNION OF INDIA & ORS — Supreme Court of India (2021)
• Respondents vs 1.Nargisbhanu — Madras High Court ()
• S.C.R. 197 ......... A CHINNAPONNU v. STATE OF TAMIL NADU — Supreme Court of India (2009)
• Petitioner/victim vs K.Ramanujam, IPS — Madras High Court (2012)
• ... Petitioner vs 1.State rep. by — Madras High Court (2013)
• CRL OP(MD)/7922/2019 — Madras High Court ()
• 20TH CENTURY FINANCE CORPORATION LTD. AND ANR v. ST A TE OF MAHARASHTRA MAY 9, 2000 B — Supreme Court of India (S)
• ...Petitioner vs The State of Tamilnadu — Madras High Court (2013)

Old <-> New Code Mapping

• BNS §273 — Disobedience to quarantine rule