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Indian Penal Code, 1860

Section 406: Punishment for criminal breach of trust

Repealed. Repealed from 1 July 2024.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 XVII — Of Offences Against Property

406. Whoever commits criminal breach of trust shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both.

Now in the new law

BNS section 316(2) — Punishment for criminal breach of trust.

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