Whoever, with the intention of wounding the feelings of any person, or of insulting the religion of any person, or with the knowledge that the feelings of any person are likely to be wounded, or that the religion of any person is likely to be insulted thereby, commits any trespass in any place of worship or on any place of sepulture or any place set apart for the performance of funeral rites, or as a depository for the remains of the dead, or offers any indignity to any human corpse, or causes disturbance to any persons assembled for the performance of funeral ceremonies, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year20083 years2008, or with fine, or with both.
Section history
Section 297
Consolidated view is experimental and may be broken for certain provisions.
Amendments
Section 297 — Original text to 1 November 2022superseded
Section 297 — From 1 November 2022 (current)repealed by Maintenance of Religious Harmony (Amendment) Act 2019, Criminal Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act 2021
[Repealed by Act 31 of 2019 wef 01/11/2022]