IPC Section 340 — Wrongful confinement

wrongful restraint and wrongful confinement

Criminal

Summary

Wrongful confinement happens when a person is wrongfully restrained in a way that stops them from moving beyond a specific set of boundaries. This means the person is kept within a certain area and cannot leave it.

Official Text

Whoever wrongfully restrains any person in such a manner as to prevent that person from proceeding beyond certain circumscribing limits, is said “wrongfully to confine” that person.

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