BNS · Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023
Section 304 — Snatching.
Replaces IPC Section -.
(1) Theft is snatching if, in order to commit theft, the offender suddenly or quickly or forcibly seizes or secures or grabs or takes away from any person or from his possession any movable property. (2) Whoever commits snatching, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, and shall also be liable to fine.
Nearby sections
- 301 Trespassing on burial places, etc.
- 302 Uttering words, etc., with deliberate intent to wound religious feelings of any person.
- 303 Theft.
- 305 Theft in a dwelling house, or means of transportation or place of worship, etc.
- 306 Theft by clerk or servant of property in possession of master.
- 307 Theft after preparation made for causing death, hurt or restraint in order to committing of theft.
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