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Section 399 — Making preparation to commit gang-robbery

As in force on 30 November 2008.

Timeline 4 versions
  1. 30 March 1987 Enacted
  2. 30 November 2008 Revised edition
  3. 31 December 2021 Revised edition
  4. 17 August 2026 Act 21 of 2025
Revised edition in force 30 November 2008

The text below is this provision as reproduced in the Revised Edition that came into force on this date. A revised edition consolidates the law without changing its substance, so editorial amendments — such as renumbering, updated citations and formatting — may have been made but are not shown as a redline.

399.Making preparation to commit gang-robbery

Whoever makes any preparation for committing gang- robbery, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term of not less than 3 years and not more than 10 years and shall also be punished with caning with not less than 12 strokes.

[Indian PC 1860, s. 399]

There is no section 398.