BNS · Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023
Section 352 — Intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace.
Replaces IPC Section 504.
Whoever intentionally insults in any manner, and thereby gives provocation to any person, intending or knowing it to be likely that such provocation will cause him to break the public peace, or to commit any other offence, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both.
Nearby sections
- 349 Selling goods marked with a counterfeit property mark.
- 350 Making a false mark upon any receptacle containing goods.
- 351 Criminal intimidation.
- 353 Statements conducing to public mischief.
- 354 Act caused by inducing person to believe that he will be rendered an object of Divine displeasure.
- 355 Misconduct in public by a drunken person.
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