Whoever commits lurking house-trespass or house-breaking, having made preparation for causing hurt to any person, or for assaulting any person, or for wrongfully restraining any person, or for putting any person in fear of hurt or of assault or of wrongful restraint, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term of not less than 2 years and not more than 10 years and with caning.
Section history
Section 455
Consolidated view is experimental and may be broken for certain provisions.
Amendments
Section 455 — Original text to 1 January 2020superseded
[Indian PC 1860, s. 455]
Section 455 — From 1 January 2020 (current)repealed by Criminal Law Reform Act 2019
[Repealed by Act 15 of 2019 wef 01/01/2020]