Vidhara

The Indian Penal Code, 1860

§4Extension of Code to extra-territorial offences

The provisions of this Code apply also to any offence committed by— [(1) any citizen of India in any place without and beyond India; (2) any person on any ship or aircraft registered in India wherever it may be.] [(3) any person in any place without and beyond India committing offence targeting a computer resource located in India.] [Explanation.—In this section— (a) the word “offence” includes every act committed outside India which, if committed in India,would be punishable under this Code; — — — (b) the expression “computer resource” shall have the meaning assigned to it in clause (k) of sub-section (1) of section 2 of the Information Technology Act, 2000 (21 of 2000);] [Illustration] *** A, [who is [a citizen of India]], commits a murder in Uganda. He can be tried and convicted of murder in any place in [India] in which he may be found. * * * * *

Old law ⇄ new law

Share:WhatsAppTelegram

Source & version

Official text: India Code (official)

Official India Code text: The Indian Penal Code, 1860 (45 of 1860), English PDF (A1860-45.pdf) retrieved via Internet Archive Wayback Machine snapshot 2020-04-21 of indiacode.nic.in (portal unreachable from ingest network). Extracted via pdftotext 26.07 -bbox and @nexlex/ingest inline parser on 2026-07-15. Repealed by BNS 2023 w.e.f. 2024-07-01. Automated parse; footnotes/amendment history excluded; illustrations restored via illustration-aware re-extraction on 2026-07-19; spot-verified; full clause-level proofread pending. Eleven State-inserted sections that had been published as central law were removed on 2026-08-02 after the D-052 guard identified them: 354E, 376F, 509A and 509B (Chhattisgarh Act 25 of 2015), 379A and 379B (Gujarat Act 6 of 2019) and 382B-382F (Tripura Act 4 of 2019). They are now recorded as State amendments against the sections they attach to, not as sections of the Code (D-053).

How we verify this text →

Spotted a mistake in this text or its mapping? Report an issue with IPC §4

Was this page useful for your prep?

Feedback