IPC 297 — Trespassing on burial places, etc

Indian Penal Code, 1860

Statutory text

Whoever,  with  the intention of  wounding the feelings of any person, or of insulting the religion of any person, or with the knowledge that the feelings of any person are likely to be wounded, or that the religion of any person is likely to be insulted thereby, commits any  trespass in  any place of worship or on any place of sepulture, or any place set apart for the performance of funeral rites or as  a depository  for the  remains  of  the  dead,  or  offers  any indignity to  any human  corpse, or  causes disturbance to any persons assembled for the performance of funeral ceremonies,
1. S. 294A ins. by Act 27 of 1870, s. 10.

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