The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 · Ch. XVII — OF OFFENCES AGAINST PROPERTY
Whoever commits mischief by killing, poisoning, maiming or rendering useless any animal shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to five years, or with fine, or with both.
From the First Schedule to the BNSS.
IPC Section 428 → BNS Section 325 per the official NCRB Sankalan table. BNS Section 325 consolidates multiple IPC sections. Marked "(Change)" — substance modified; compare texts.
This is the text of IPC Section 428, not of the section above. Read both before relying on either.
Whoever commits mischief by killing, poisoning, maiming or rendering useless any animal or animals of the value of the ten rupees or upwards, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both.
IPC Section 429 → BNS Section 325 per the official NCRB Sankalan table. BNS Section 325 consolidates multiple IPC sections. Marked "(Change)" — substance modified; compare texts.
This is the text of IPC Section 429, not of the section above. Read both before relying on either.
Whoever commits mischief by killing, poisoning, maiming or rendering useless, any elephant, camel, horse, mule, buffalo, bull, cow or ox, whatever may be the value thereof, or any other animal of the value of fifty rupees or upwards, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to five years, or with fine, or with both.
Source & version
Official text: Gazette of India via MHA (official) ↗
Official Gazette text: The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (45 of 2023), English PDF as hosted by Ministry of Home Affairs (mha.gov.in, file 250883_english_01042024.pdf; canonical mirror indiacode.nic.in bitstream a202345.pdf). Extracted via pdftotext 26.07 -layout and @nexlex/ingest gazette-pdf parser on 2026-07-14. Automated parse; structural validation + spot verification of sections 1, 63, 103, 302, 358; full clause-level proofread pending.
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