Whoever commits house-trespass2020house-breaking2020 in order to commit any offence punishable with imprisonment, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 22020102020 years, and shall also be liable to fine; and if the offence intended to be committed is theft, the term of the imprisonment may be extended to 7 years2020.
Section history
Section 451 — House-breaking in order to commit an offence punishable with imprisonment
Consolidated view is experimental and may be broken for certain provisions.
Amendments
[Indian PC 1860, s. 451]