Whoever commits lurking house-trespass by night or house-breaking by night, 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 14 years and with caning.
Section history
Section 458
Consolidated view is experimental and may be broken for certain provisions.
Amendments
Section 458 — Original text to 30 November 2008superseded
Section 458 — 30 November 2008 to 1 January 2020rewritten by the Revised Edition
Whoever commits lurking house-trespass by night or house-breaking by night, 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 14 years and with caning.
[Indian PC 1860, s. 458]
Section 458 — From 1 January 2020 (current)repealed by Criminal Law Reform Act 2019
[Repealed by Act 15 of 2019 wef 01/01/2020]