IPC Section 310 — Thug

offences affecting the human body

Criminal

Summary

A person is considered a thug if they regularly work with one or more other people to commit robbery or child-stealing by using murder or by making murder part of the crime. This definition applies only to actions that happen after this law came into effect.

Official Text

Whoever, at any time after the passing of this Act, shall have been habitually associated with any other or others for the purpose of committing robbery or child-stealing by means of or accompanied with murder, is a thug.

Related Judgments

  • PRATAP vs STATE OF U.P — Supreme Court of India (1972)
  • RAJESH KUMAR vs STATE OF H.P — Supreme Court of India (2008)
  • CHAMAN & ANR. vs STATE OF UTTARANCHAL — Supreme Court of India (2008)

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