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Section 442 — House-breaking

Consolidated view is experimental and may be broken for certain provisions.

Amendments
442.House-trespassHouse-breaking

Whoever commits criminal trespass by entering into, or remaining in, any building, tent, container or vessel used as a human dwelling, or any building used as a place for worship or as a place for the custody of property, is said to commit “house-trespasshouse-breaking”.

Explanation.—The introduction of any part of the criminal trespasser’s body is entering sufficient to constitute house-trespasshouse-breaking.

[Indian PC 1860, s. 442]