Whoever commits criminal trespass by entering into, or remaining in, any building, tent, container2020 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-trespass2020house-breaking2020”.
Section history
Section 442 — House-breaking
Consolidated view is experimental and may be broken for certain provisions.
Amendments
Explanation.—The introduction of any part of the criminal trespasser’s body is entering sufficient to constitute house-trespass2020house-breaking2020.
[Indian PC 1860, s. 442]