VidhiSangh

Indian Penal Code, 1860

Section 444: Lurking house-trespass by night

Repealed. Repealed from 1 July 2024.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

444. Whoever commits lurking house-trespass after sunset and before sunrise, is said to commit "lurking house-trespass by night".

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