IPC Section 390 — Robbery

robbery and dacoity

Criminal

Summary

Robbery always involves either theft or extortion. Theft becomes robbery if the offender, while stealing or carrying away the stolen property, intentionally causes or tries to cause death, hurt, or wrongful restraint, or the immediate fear of these things. Extortion becomes robbery if the offender is present with the person being threatened, puts that person in immediate fear of death, hurt, or wrongful restraint, and forces them to hand over the property on the spot.

Official Text

In all robbery there is either theft or extortion. When theft is robbery Theft is “robbery” if, in order to the committing of the theft, or in committing the theft, or in carrying away or attempting to carry away property obtained by the theft, the offender, for that end, voluntarily causes or attempts to cause to any person death or hurt or wrongful restraint, or fear of instant death or of instant hurt, or of instant wrongful restraint. When extortion is robbery Extortion is “robbery” if the offender, at the time of committing the extortion, is in the presence of the person put in fear, and commits the extortion by putting that person in fear of instant death, of instant hurt, or of instant wrongful restraint to that person or to some other person, and, by so putting in fear, induces the person, so put in fear then and there to deliver up the thing extorted.

Related Provisions

robbery/dacoity

Related Judgments

  • ... Appellant vs The State of Tamil Nadu, — Madras High Court (2004)
  • ... Appellant / A2 vs State — Madras High Court (2012)
  • CASE DETAILS MOHAMMAD WAJID AND ANR v. STATE OF U.P. AND ORS — Supreme Court of India (2023)
  • VENUGOPAL AND ORS v. STATE OF 227 KARNATAKA — Supreme Court of India (2008)
  • CRL OP(MD)/3221/2017 — Madras High Court ()
  • S.C.R. 514 514 GANESAN v. STATE REP. BY STATION HOUSE OFFICER — Supreme Court of India (2021)
  • CHANDRA & ANR. ETC v. STATE OF KARNATAKA — Supreme Court of India (2022)
  • Appellant/Accused vs The Inspector of Police, — Madras High Court (2015)

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