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Section 409 IPC — Criminal breach of trust by public servant, or by banker, merchant or agent

Indian Penal Code, 1860 · Official PDF page 165

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409. Criminal breach of trust by public servant, or by banker, merchant or agent.--Whoever, being in any manner entrusted with property, or with any dominion over property in his capacity of a public servant or in the way of his business as a banker, merchant, factor, broker, attorney or agent, commits criminal breach of trust in respect of that property, shall be punished with 1*[imprisonment for life], or with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine. OF TE RECEIVING OF STOLEN PROPERTY

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