IPC Section 343 — Wrongful confinement for three or more days

wrongful restraint and wrongful confinement

Criminal

Summary

Whoever keeps a person locked up or trapped against their will for three days or longer commits the offence of wrongful confinement. The punishment for this can be imprisonment for up to two years, or a fine, or both. The law does not specify the type of imprisonment, so it could be either simple or rigorous.

Official Text

Whoever wrongfully confines any person for three days or more, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both.

Related Judgments

  • SC (2025) Vol.1 p.1725 — Supreme Court of India (2025)
  • ... Petitioner vs The Director, — Madras High Court (2007)
  • KAMAL JEET KAUR v. STATE OF RAJASTHAN MAY 14, 2007 — Supreme Court of India (2007)
  • VOL. THE STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH v. N. VENUGOPAL AND OTHERS — Supreme Court of India (1964)
  • CRL A/735/2004 — Madras High Court (2004)
  • LA DADA MESSHRAM v. STATE OF MAHARASHTRA — Supreme Court of India (2009)
  • RAVISHWAR MANJHI & ORS v. STATE OF JHARKHAND 427 — Supreme Court of India (2008)
  • HARBANS SINGH AND ANOTHER v. STATE OF PUNJAB — Supreme Court of India (S)

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