(1) The offenses punishable under the sections of the Indian Penal Code specified in the first two columns of the table next following may be compounded by the persons mentioned in the third column of that Table:- TABLE Section of the Indian Offence Penal Code Person by whom offense applicable may be compounded 1 2 3 Uttering words, etc… with 298 The person whose reli- deliberate intent to wound your feelings are in-the religious feelings of tended to be compound- any person. ded. Causing hurt————- 323 334 The person to whom the hurt is caused. Wrongfully restraining or 341 342 The person restrained or confining any person. confined. Assault or use of criminal 352, 355, 358 The person assaulted or force. to whom criminal force is used. Mischief, when the only loss 426, 427 The person to whom the or damage caused is loss or loss or damage is caused. damage to a private person. Criminal trespass————- 447 The person in possession of the property trespassed upon. House- trespass———– 448 Ditto. Criminal breach of contract 491 The person with whom the of service. the offender has contracted. Adultery—————- 497 The husband of the woman. Enticing or taking away or 498 Ditto. detaining with a criminal in- tent a married woman. Defamation except such 500 The person defamed. cases as are specified against section 500 of the Indian Penal Code in column 1 of the Table under sub-section (2).] Printing or engraving matter, 501 Ditto. knowing it to be defamatory. Sale of printed or engraved 502 Ditto. a substance containing defamatory matter, knowing it to contain such matter.
Section of the Indian Offence Penal Code Person by whom offense applicable may be compounded 1 2 3 Insult intended to provoke 504 The person insulted. a breach of the peace. Criminal intimidation except 506 The person intimidated. when the offense is punishable with imprisonment for seven years. The act caused by making a person 508 The person against whom believe that he will be the offense was common- the object of divine displeasure. the.
(2) The offenses punishable under the sections of the Indian Penal (45 of 1860 ) Code specified in the first two columns of the table next following may, with the permission of the Court before which any prosecution for such offense is pending, be compounded by the persons mentioned in the third column of that Table: TABLE Section of the Indian Offence Penal Code Person by whom offense applicable may be compounded 1 2 3 Voluntarily causing hurt by 324 The person to whom hurt dangerous weapons or means. is caused. Voluntarily causing grievous 325 Ditto. hurt. Voluntarily causing grievous 335 Ditto. hurt on grave and sudden provocation. Causing hurt by doing an act 337 Ditto, so rashly and negligently as to endanger human life or the personal safety of others. Causing grievous hurt by 338 Ditto. doing an act so rashly and negligently as to endanger human life or the personal safety of others. Wrongfully confining a person 343 The person confined. for three days or more.
Section of the Indian Offence Penal Code Person by whom offense applicable may be compounded 1 2 3 Defamation against the Presi- 500 The person defamed. a dent or the Vice-President or the Governor of a State or the Administrator of a Union territory or a Minister in respect of his conduct in the discharge of his public functions when instituted upon a complaint made by the Public Prosecutor. Uttering words or sounds or 509 The woman whom it was making gestures or exhibiting intended to insult or any object intending to insult whose privacy was intro- the modesty of a woman or in- died upon. trading upon the privacy of a woman.
(3) When any offense is compoundable under this section, the abetment of such offense or an attempt to commit such offense (when such attempt is itself an offense) may be compounded in like manner.
(4) (a) When the person who would otherwise be competent to compound an offense under this section is under the age of eighteen years or is an idiot or a lunatic any person competent to contract on his behalf may with the permission of the Court, compound such offense.
(b) When the person who would otherwise be competent to compound an offense under this section is dead, the legal representative as defined in the Code of Civil Procedure 1908 (5 of 1908 ) of such person may, with the consent of the Court, a compound such offense.
(5) When the accused has been committed for trial or when he has been convicted and an appeal is pending, no composition for the offense shall be allowed without the leave of the Court to which he is committed or as the case may be, before which the appeal is to be heard.
(6) A High Court or Court of Session acting in the exercise of its powers of revision under section 401 may allow any person to compound any offense which such person is competent to compound under this section.
(7) No offense shall be compounded if the accused is by reason of a previous conviction, liable either to enhanced punishment or to a punishment of a different kind for such offense.
(8) The composition of an offense under this section shall have the effect of an acquittal of the accused with whom the offense has been compounded.
(9) No offense shall be compounded except as provided by this section.
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