VidhiSangh

Indian Penal Code, 1860

Section 446: House-breaking 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Repealed. Repealed from 1 July 2024.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

446. Whoever commits house-breaking after sunset and before sunrise, is said to commit "house-breaking by night".

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