IPC Section 349 — Force

criminal force and assault

Criminal

Summary

A person is considered to have used force against another person if they cause that person to move, change direction, or stop moving. Force also includes causing any object to move, change direction, or stop moving so that it touches the other person’s body, or touches something they are wearing or carrying, or touches something placed in a way that the contact affects their sense of feeling.

Official Text

A person is said to use force to another if he causes motion, change of motion, or cessation of motion to that other, or if he causes to any substance such motion, or change of motion, or cessation of motion as brings that substance into contact with any part of that other’s body, or with anything which that other is wearing or carrying, or with anything so situated that such contact affects that other’s sense of feeling;

Related Judgments

  • SC (2024) Vol.8 p.935 — Supreme Court of India (2024)
  • ... Appellants/Accused 3 & 4. vs 1.The State, by Inspector of Police, — Madras High Court (2017)
  • ..Petitioner in WP 8384/2013 vs 1.The Joint Director of Enforcement (PMLA), — Madras High Court (2013)
  • ... Appellant / Accused No.1 vs State Rep. By — Madras High Court (2014)
  • THE GUJARAT UNIVERSITY, AHMEDABAD v. KRISHNA RANGANATH MUDHOLKAR AND OTHERS — Supreme Court of India (S)
  • ... Appellant/Accused vs State, rep.by — Madras High Court (2016)
  • HAZARA SINGH v. PUNJAB — Supreme Court of India (1971)
  • ... Revision Petitioners vs State rep. by the Station House Officer, — Madras High Court (2016)

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