The Indian Penal Code

Wrongful restraint

Wrongful confinement

Punishment for wrongful restraint

Punishment for wrongful confinement

Wrongful confinement for three or more days

Wrongful confinement for ten or more days

Wrongful confinement of person for whose liberation writ has been issued

Wrongful confinement in secret

Wrongful confinement to extort property, or constrain to illegal act

Wrongful confinement to extort confession, or compel restoration of property


Of wrongful restraint and wrongful confinement


Whoever
keeps any person in wrongful confinement, knowing that a writ for the liberation of that person has been
duly issued, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to
two years in addition to any term of imprisonment to which he may be liable under any other section of
this Chapter.

LAWGIST

# 345 Wrongful confinement of person for whose liberation writ has been issued