Indian Penal Code, 1860

Section 23: "Wrongful gain"

Repealed. Repealed from 1 July 2024. Use it for offences committed before repeal and other liabilities, investigations or proceedings preserved by BNS section 358; do not use it as the current general penal code.

Chapter II — General Explanations

23. "Wrongful gain" is gain by unlawful means of property to which the person gaining is not legally entitled. "Wrongful loss".

"Wrongful loss".--"Wrongful loss" is the loss by unlawful means of property to which the person losing it is legally entitled. Gaining wrongfully. Losing wrongfully.

Gaining wrongfully. Losing wrongfully.--A person is said to gain wrongfully when such person retains wrongfully, as well as when such person acquires wrongfully. A person is said to lose wrongfully when such person is wrongfully kept out of any property, as well as when such person is wrongfully deprived of property.

Source: official text of the Indian Penal Code, 1860.