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

As in force on 1 January 2013.

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  1. 30 March 1987 Enacted
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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, a merchant, a factor, a broker, an attorney or an agent, commits criminal breach of trust in respect of that property, shall be punished with imprisonment for life, or with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 20 years, and shall also be liable to fine.

[Indian PC 1860, s. 409]